SHE CAME TO STAY, NOT LONG
ENOUGH TO KNOW SHE COULD NOT STAY
HER LIGHTEST TOUCH A HESITANT DEMAND TO BE MYSELF
SO FAINT A SENSE NOW ALL TOO SOON ALMOST FORGOTTEN
A WHIRLCANE SHE CAME SO PERFECTLY WITH SUCH A SILENT ROAR
OH, HER DIFFERENCE MORE THAN SPECIAL
A THOUSAND AIRBORNE SEAS OF CONSTANT TIDE
YET NO SOFTER, WHISPERED WAVE SWEPT A SOUL
AND I, SO TAKEN LIGHTLY
LAMBENTLY LOVED AND LOVER
A JOY, TO BE, NOW AND FOREVER, ALL WAYS
Categories:
lambently, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Housemothers twain, swaddled in sorrel fur
And bustled skirts, walking ‘tween the parklands.
Brilliant cobalt sky, above cawing birds,
Who demand substance, with their harangue?
So the fostering queens proffer their alms.
The badelynge of ducks, on polished ice,
Lambently advance with feral affray.
As morsels of cardinal fare, entice.
The attending dames in their tender, urbane way,
Have rescued these birds from another wintry day.
Categories:
lambently, animal, beautiful, beauty, bird,
Form: Dizain