Mar
29
2009
it is at moments after i have dreamed
of the rare entertainment of your eye
when (being fool to fancy) i have deemed
with your peculiar mouth my heart made wise;
at moments when the glassy darkness holds
the genuine apparition of your smile
(it was through tears always)and silence moulds
such strangeness as was mine [...]
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Feb
22
2009
Dusks of paperwhites,
dusks of jasmine,
intimate beyond belief
Extract from Cyrus Cassells (Poetry Foundation) (click to read) poem Beautiful Signor, published by Copper Canyon Press in 1997
many thanks to ario for the link and to ya for the photography
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Feb
6
2009
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Robert Frost
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