Written: October 23, 2023,
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A staunch surrender in a twilight embrace.
My mind is a hammock, swaying in the space.
Dictated dream and lingering shadow.
Petal radiance with an evanescent shallow.
A passion fragrance, an aroma elixir.
A dulcet mellifluous flavor floods flicker
My heart's cynosure, an angelic sanitorium.
With lissome poise, a sublime emporium.
In the depths of my soul, a radiance glows,
Scattering impressions as the wind blows.
Reminisce on the whispers of crumpled stars,
Silently sprinkled across the night's memoirs.
Emollient whispers of a forbidden dance,
Furtive and fleeting, a forbidden glance.
I fear the allure of this elixir spell,
Yet the felicity it brings, I cannot quell.
The flavor of surrender, fraught with desire,
A taste of ecstasy, a blazing fire.
Akin to fugacity, it lingers on my tongue,
A fleeting moment, yet forever young.
Categories:
sanitorium, appreciation, beauty, night,
Form: Rhyme
A little boy of eight is so surprised
to see his father at the gate of the school.
His father hands him half a crown and says
he is leaving town immeditaly.
Warns.."Do not follow me."
The little boy returns from school that day
to witness a bonfire in his backyard.
His step sister had been ordered to
burn every item of his father's belongings.
Whose name is never mentioned again.
A teenage boy is away at boarding school
when a message arrives from his long lost father.
"Please visit me, I am ill with T.B. in the sanitorium."
Ten minutes walk from the teenager's college.
He declines the invitation.
A teenage daughter listens to her aged father,
tell this story about his own father.
How loyalty to his mother prevented him
from ever meeting again his only kin.
Who had died at age forty four.
Now this daughter's Dad is dead twenty years.
She herself has three daughters and knows
too well the pain her father must have been in.
Thinking of that missed oppertuinity to see
himself reflected in eyes full of love.
14/08/2017
Categories:
sanitorium, angst, birth, dad, death,
Form: Free verse