Archive 10/20/09 - (2)

   

A Lark Ascending

                                                                  

 

The evening and her breezes belong to me.

She invites me to compose passages for her,

To accompany our rapturous intimacy.

 

Eagerly, discreetly, with quiet desire, I oblige,

Scoring a romance, note by mellifluous note,

As though I were Vaughan Williams,

 

Even though no blithe birdsongs

Lift from the pear trees' leafy, fidgeting limbs,

Sublime into passional night.

 

Suddenly, within my ears' near distance,

I hear one lovely creature hovering, fluttering,

Just above my pen's bowstrings,

 

Whispering to me, with its twittering,

The most exquisite lyrics I've ever listened to.

And in this suspended instant, a lark ascends.

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                               

 

10/20/09 - (2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
       

 

 
   
Site contents Copyright © 2017, Louis Daniel Brodsky
Visit Louis Daniel Brodsky on Facebook!