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Shadows and Birdsong

Lost in thought

I walk

Through the evening wood.

Then I see

My shadow beside me.

 

In inner talk

I failed to see

The wood’s beauty

And my whirling  words

Drowned out the birds.

 

My tomorrow may not come.

Yet the sun

Shines through the trees

And there is beauty

In these shadows and birdsong.

Tombs

I have passed tombs

In the sunshine

And in the gloom

Pondering on rhyme

And my fleeting time.

 

Scented with perfume

She passed the dead

Who lay entombed

In their unenvied bed

 

 

And the dead slept on

When she was gone.

We find brevity in lust

And permanence in dust.