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0 posted 2007-10-03 08:09 AM


Secret Woods

“I have perceived only for the first time
how much light there still was in that dusk.”
     - Vincent Van Gogh

You told me that you kept a dog
as your excuse for walking woods
and meadows where wildflowers grew.
You said it wasn’t seemly for a man
to need as much as you
the reassurance of winter’s end
that hides within the first snowdrop.

And how when bluebells
laid down their azure carpet
over April’s dreary dampness
along the woodland path,
you’d pause and let the dog off leash,
presumably, to passers by,
just to let it roam a bit while you,
expressionless, to their eye, secretly
enjoyed the bliss of green and blue .

In summer meadows, clovered fields
you memorized the shape and hue
of every flower, counted up
their number and painted
them in watercolors
against the winter’s darkness.

It is a different season now
shadows lengthen on the path, and though
I fear the dusk of winter
and grieve your absence,
I have found in autumn light
the secret of your secret woods.

http://www.vggallery.com/painting/p_0008.htm


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Love it jennifer

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