To be of memory…
The starlight painted seas
Your eyes belonged to.
I remember then,
The hush of ocean.
Also the cost…
Of a moment.
To be of memory…
The starlight painted seas
Your eyes belonged to.
I remember then,
The hush of ocean.
Also the cost…
Of a moment.
Oh to be
As light as a bird
In the fields
Of gold…
Lighter than
The wind
Dancing
Secretively,
Beneath her wings…
Lost in
The memories
Of our Land.

In the lofty mist
Of a white day,
Notes of oud
Tethered a snowy billow,
Parting a will to rest.
An earthly warmth
Was not ready,
And yet he pleaded
With fingers
That could not pray.
The smoke passed
As an afterthought,
A cold day in Spring.
I wonder when last
He saw his garden…
If he’ll visit, with wings.
“Our depth is a shallow
In the seas of being
The iris of existence.
Our ideas…
Warmth and cold.
Oil pastels…
Upon the pupil.”

But was I a bird
To pluck my plume
A nest.
But was I was a bird
For you.
But was I the olive
To lay my leaf
Abed.
But was I the olive
For you.
But was I the sun
To let my light
Blanket.
But was I the sun,
For you.
But, as the night,
It will seem,
I settle for you in dream.
What if a thought, perhaps a few,
In every snowflake that fell for you,
Where to chime in its own way?
They all would, though indifferently…
Theirs is not a frosty hymn.
I know they came from a warmer spring.
Past the mountains in unknown groves,
A sun implored them… and now lets go.
Before my eyes settle to skies
And aimless wishes fall to dreams
I gaze across the cotton miles
And milky way shimmering streams.
I’d like to think there are those who
Have known rest on a cloud or two…
And close the curtains with this thought
Pretending to be, of those aloft.
These letters are want the days
That I’ll remember few,
When we galloped fields of sage
And valleys of featherfew.
There you hummed a poets lines,
When of sage rose grape vines;
And threaded the night a gown
With lamp lights that littered town.
I couldn’t as a stranger pass
As you dressed a virgin land,
A language braided of the past
With a homeless heart and handless hand.
So your hills I braved
When you unearthed to me,
As we with night behaved,
Where you conceived a doorless key.
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