dedalus Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 Silence is the ultimate response to impulse, to importunity, casting its veil, a cloudlike mist over lost opportunity. In the pressing heat of long summer days, amid sonorous sounds of morning cicadas, an icicle pierced, a splinter, a knife, into the centre of my life. Winter weighed in: and as a frozen apple on a frost-whipped tree, so died all feeling between you and me. Your eyes, your smile, the eternal feminine mystery, returning, returning, recharged with each cycle of human history. The daily e-mails, the archives of non-dawning day: nothing, nothing could match their wonder nor match their sense of play. Now there are no e-mails at all. Dear sweet girl. Your black sparkling eyes, your body like a bolt of thunder! We met in June, parted in July, and at times I can only wonder why O why these things come down like summer storms? The approach of love is as sudden as a flight of birds over a morning lake, a rustling of wings over stillness, the descent again into silence. We had affection, yes, a certain style, a languorous grace; but when I reached out for your heart there was nothing there, an absence, nothing but an empty space. Silence is the ultimate response to all the things we hope for, to all the things we fear, to all the things we cannot understand. When you die, sweet girl, as we all must die, a kaleidoscope of images will flash, unbidden, across your agéd, your withered brain, and of our time, this pulsating summer, no memory will remain. And that will be the final end. That will be the end. But will it? Long after you and I are dust and clay some earnest future scholar may unearth this poem, and recall the beauty, the cruelty of it all. Quote Drown your sorrows in drink, by all means, but the real sorrows can swim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyv Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 A truly beautiful write from concept to content to form. Terrifically remastered. Tony PS -- I had a question about one of your older works. PM sent. Quote Here is a link to an index of my works on this site: tonyv's Member Archive topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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