Tag Archives: mortality

The Fox’s Bark

Sometimes the fox’s bark

Pierces the dark

As our bodies meet

Under comforting sheets.

A girl’s soft kiss

And exploring hands

Can command my lust.

But your bark,

So cold and sharp

Speaks of dust.

 

A Hyacinth’s Scent Last Night

A hyacinth’s scent last night

Brought such delight

To me as she stood,

Pure and white

In her box of wood.

 

 

Others unopened stood

In that box of wood.

They will flower and die

As will I.

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.

On a Cold Autumn Day

On a cold autumn day

I find that time

Has stopped. But my clock

May be wound today.

Yet, one day

I will not

Know the day or time.

I Do Not Fear Another Dying Year

I do not fear

Another dying year

But simply  pass

Along the churchyard path

Observing these fallen leaves.

 

Autumn does not deceive.

But lust

Does, I find

Distract the mind

From dust,

 

 

While autumn time reminds

Us that we all

As autumn leaves

Must fall.

 

I Am Not Indifferent to the Charms

I am not indifferent to the charms

Of a young woman’s arms.

So when your arm wound around me

Of course I was flattered

For you are much younger than me.

 

 

I have had dreams shattered

So will believe that it was merely

Out of friendly regard

That your youthful arm

Wound around me.

 

In the churchyard

On my way home alone

I passed by cold stones

And contrasted their charms

With your warm arms.

I Touch the Gravestone

I touch the gravestone

Warm from the afternoon sun.

I have come

Here alone,

Many a time

My mind

Full of rhyme.

But under the cold gravestone

There is neither sun

Nor rhyme.

Modernity

Amidst these windswept trees

I feel free

Of modernity.

For the breeze

Drowns out the noise

Of broken

Toys.

 

 

In this wood

A tree

Fall

Could end all

This modernity,

Leaving no rhyme

Behind.