Monday, 16 March 2009

When the last kiss is plucked from my heart

When the last kiss is plucked from my heart

I tremble graciously like a vine and upward

Through my trembling I graciously shine

To the song of a higher verse

My heart is a molten pot of poetry

You stir and you stir till

The ripples reach the lower depths

Like a pebble thrown to sea

I leash myself into my fathom depths

Where darkness sings with birds

And there I kneel before you.

I see my feathers, spring and joy.

All these feathers and all these birds and this unfilling cupful of joy melodise with crashes unto the waves

With wind song on the mountain

The keys of raindrops on the lake

And the colours inside the fountain

I find myself like a burning torch like pool of nothing

Like a longing, flowing, gurgling brook

Like a deep, cool river running.

My riverbed is firm and true

My waters long to rise

To rise and rise till they are rainbows in the skies.

Once they rise, they rise so high

I’m left up in the skies

But once again you may stir

I shall reach my fathom bottom

And there I stand under my rain

And under my shining song, and thunder clashing.

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