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Shadow to Stand
28 August 2006

A head and two shoulders
a heart worn upon a sleeve
All dressed up in a fashion
seeking nothing but love

For what was right
and where was wrong
The exclamation mark
and the singer of her song

To honestly love
in ways connected in kind
To see and seek beauty
and all in her beauty declined

Not as to rejection, but more to write
sadness perhaps, or happiness to processed
Good luck and bad luck, mercy to befall
where roses are yellow and
heaven was a shadow to stand


“As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my
beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with
great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. Until the day
break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be
thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.”
Song of Solomon 2: 3, 17 KJV


© 2006 Christopher W Herbert (a New Zealand Poet)

a poet who cares