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Rex Member
since 2000-06-29
Posts 482Houston, Texas 
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Arabesque I know tall trees in leaf, and tender shoots of grass Spring forth in pale green newness as I pass. Here glints the pink against white clouds that fleck A turquoise sky, and so in radiance deck Its freshness with a filigree of jewels That live and gleam anew in placid pools. Here wafts the perfumed lotus in the long Sweet sweep of wind; and, as a vagrant song, The plaintive call of night-birds in the glow Of moon-drenched hours, where, row by misted row, The eucalyptus guards the winding way That leads from silvered light to sun-kissed day! You know a city, silent, cold, storm-swept, Laid deep in frozen tears which heaven wept. Where moon-gleams pierce the shadows blue, and seem To change a brooding bleakness into dream. In masquerade vast snow mounds rise grotesque, Each minute sparkling flake an arabesque Of fantasy in white, whose mute caprice Has turned a city's turmoil into peace! * * * I know the sweet, fair things of coming spring... Yet frozen lies the song I fain would sing. While you, 'mid winter's drear and darkened day Know songs still live...and snows will pass away! |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
You have incredibly elegant phrasing Rex - methinks you feel the poetry wash over you when you write yes? Thanks for posting.. ps - thankyou for your note the other day...  KStrokes of ink, words, dreams like Waking mountains make intimate conversations With my shadow From 'Words in the Night' by Jeff Geddes |
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dragonpoe Senior Member
since 2000-11-12
Posts 608Palm Bay, Florida |
Very beautiful. The imagery is so vivid, I could see it all the way through. I need to ask, do you have a favorite poet, or era of poetry? Yours comes off so classic and elegant. As I read, it reminds me of those I've read that I chose to admire most, Byron and Tennyson, or other 1800/1900's poets. With the word, I am mighty, with the pen I am free.. dragonpoe |
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He Junior Member
since 2001-01-15
Posts 41 |
"know songs still live" I really like that libne. Ah the yearning for green in a white clad world. |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
The eucalyptus guards the winding way That leads from silvered light to sun-kissed day! beautiful words and thoughts tonight, Rex..almost too beautiful for the dark corner here...*s ~Wynter "The worst prison would be a closed heart". ...Pope John Paul II |
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