(gasp) Poetry: first poem from voices, posted elsewhere
April 30, 2008 at 11:29 pm Leave a comment
paths
when i first met you
wandering in that pasture
(your face cast downwards
obscured
by your golden silky hair
you seemed so startled to see me!
like some wildwoods doe:
this, then, is man…)
you said (when
you’d overcome that somehow
wounded shyness)
you sought
a certain silence
that led, you were sure,
to wisdom or its path.
but i made you look
at the burning sky,
the rolling sward, the splendid
ranks of trees: o, i
seduced you quite gently
and had my will of you.
o, but then you strode away,
vibrant, head high-held,
and i…
head bowed, somber, speechless
i search
for that silence, that path.
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glenn
–dedicated to Andre Norton, though ’tain’t a bit like her writing
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