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Rex
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since 2000-06-29
Posts 482
Houston, Texas

0 posted 2001-01-18 12:25 PM


Arabesque

I know tall trees in leaf, and tender shoots of grass
Spring forth in pale green newness as I pass.
Here glints the pink against white clouds that fleck
A turquoise sky, and so in radiance deck
Its freshness with a filigree of jewels
That live and gleam anew in placid pools.
Here wafts the perfumed lotus in the long
Sweet sweep of wind; and, as a vagrant song,
The plaintive call of night-birds in the glow
Of moon-drenched hours, where, row by misted row,
The eucalyptus guards the winding way
That leads from silvered light to sun-kissed day!
You know a city, silent, cold, storm-swept,
Laid deep in frozen tears which heaven wept.
Where moon-gleams pierce the shadows blue, and seem
To change a brooding bleakness into dream.
In masquerade vast snow mounds rise grotesque,
Each minute sparkling flake an arabesque
Of fantasy in white, whose mute caprice
Has turned a city's turmoil into peace!

* * *

I know the sweet, fair things of coming spring...
Yet frozen lies the song I fain would sing.
While you, 'mid winter's drear and darkened day
Know songs still live...and snows will
pass away!


© Copyright 2001 Rex E. Alford - All Rights Reserved
Severn
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704

1 posted 2001-01-19 07:15 AM


You have incredibly elegant phrasing Rex - methinks you feel the poetry wash over you when you write yes?

Thanks for posting..

ps - thankyou for your note the other day...  

K

Strokes of ink, words, dreams like
Waking mountains make intimate conversations
With my shadow

From 'Words in the Night' by Jeff Geddes

dragonpoe
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since 2000-11-12
Posts 608
Palm Bay, Florida
2 posted 2001-01-19 02:10 PM


Very beautiful. The imagery is so vivid, I could see it all the way through. I need to ask, do you have a favorite poet, or era of poetry? Yours comes off so classic and elegant. As I read, it reminds me of those I've read that I chose to admire most, Byron and Tennyson, or other 1800/1900's poets.


With the word, I am mighty, with the pen I am free..
dragonpoe

He
Junior Member
since 2001-01-15
Posts 41

3 posted 2001-01-19 04:08 PM


"know songs still live" I really like that libne. Ah the yearning for green in a white clad world.
nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200
Between the Lines
4 posted 2001-01-20 07:50 AM


The eucalyptus guards the winding way
That leads from silvered light to sun-kissed day!


beautiful words and thoughts tonight, Rex..almost too beautiful for the dark corner here...*s

~Wynter


"The worst prison would be a closed heart".
...Pope John Paul II



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