I realized it's Valentine's day..........I figured I should try to dig up something that relates to the occasion. I found these poems, alas, the residue of a long ago love affair..........
BIRD OF PARADISE
I pause at the door, key in hand.
Breathing in the last of you.
Pleasure that pierces heart and reason
All I can give
is to give it back.
World, here is my heart's unspoken delight.
I offer it back to you
to light among the dappled leaves
I open my hand
a scarlet bird
flashes among the trees.
Fly free,
Bird of Paradise,
into the morning
from the other side of forever.
IN CONSTANT FLIGHT
The road twists before me
a white line, a black stream
Hello and Goodbye live in the same house
I examine myself, knowing
that a woman of 40 years
is old enough to expect nothing.
On a whim, I stop for coffee
in Scotland, Pa.
Population 2,500 souls
and write in my journal:
"Kiss the joy as it flies
and live in eternity's sunrise"
Thank you, William Blake.
I am driving west now
where the sun before me
continues to set.
A painting I once saw comes to mind
two hands lying, side by side,
not touching
a kind of moving electricity
holding them
together,
and apart
from somewhere in the area of my chest
a secret electricity expands behind me
like a ribbon in the wind,
a silver cord
crossing the Pokanos,
the Catskills,
mountains, oceans, lifetimes.
Pull the cord,
and I shall surely know it.
3 comments:
Love affairs fondly remembered? Gail
Terrific poetry! Happy heart day, Lauren.
Happy Valentine's day to you!
Well, now that I read these poems again, I suppose the affair didn't really end that well, since the poems seem rather full of resignation, etc. And we never did connect again. Oh well. The sting is long gone.
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