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jbstillwater
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since 2009-07-03

Posts 216
Albuquerque, New Mexico

0 posted 2009-07-12 01:56 PM

We danced across moss-fur wrapped flowers,
Edelweiss
Turning fields of gold- green to dotted Swiss gowns.
Covering alpine meadows, frenzied- Monet.
We climbed,
staffs held tightly through puddles half frozen.
The Zugspitz-mid fall, a grumpy old man,
chides us for losing our group two miles back.
Not a care should we fall to Abend’s blessing
and spend the night under silent, white stars.
For life followed behind- committing to dreams
we left in the foothills where first we began.

Oh, let us spend nights under silent, white stars!
.
When we saw her peeking o' re the next rise.
A princess abandoned by Monks and Wood Fairies.
Modest her steeple rose beneath oak.
Patiently waiting for chants and changes.
Doors left open, windows raised to the crisp.
She sighed gentle tales of mightier days.
.
For time was not in this high mountain place,
as we knelt in prayer and drank from our skins.
Like children we laughed when we found an old coin;
and cried when it fell through the cracks in the floor.
A call through the mountains, our friends are approaching,
happy to find us and rest for a while.
Then we quickly surrendered to Abend’s Blessing.
The swift descent back through the Edel below.
Where a fire waited beside our spun dreams.
With Pilsner and Snitznel and stories in Ehrwald.
We gazed the path back and knew we were blest
in that high mountain chapel ,
the princess of Abend
.
For life followed behind committing to dreams
we left in the foothills where first we began.
Oh, let us spend nights under silent, white stars!
God, let us spend nights under silent, white stars!
© Copyright Janet Brennan, All rights reserved

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

1 posted 2009-07-12 02:01 PM

What a beautiful setting, and wonderful story in this poem. These are absolutely my favorite kinds of poems. Well done!

Carpe' Diem,
Mysteria

D.Lester Young
Senior Member

since 2001-12-08

Posts 1219
Austin, Tx

2 posted 2009-07-12 02:46 PM

Upon your words lays the mountains radiating your Uni-Verse of imagery insight.

jbstillwater
Member

since 2009-07-03

Posts 216
Albuquerque, New Mexico

3 posted 2009-07-12 04:41 PM

Thanks guys

Happy you liked it
Jan

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

4 posted 2009-07-13 03:51 AM

Danke schön für dieses wunderbare Gedicht!

This was such a delight to read and "experience", dear JB, it brought back memories of course of MY mountains, though Zugspitze is in Germany.

Oh, the Abend's blessing in the mountains, something that goes deeper than anywhere else. Up there it seems easier to grasp the Divine ...

Thank you again for this enchanting piece of poetry.

Love,
Margherita

"Love is the One who masters all things;
I am mastered totally by Love."
(Rumi)

jbstillwater
Member

since 2009-07-03

Posts 216
Albuquerque, New Mexico

5 posted 2009-07-14 01:22 PM

Thank you Marg, and you definite understand the beauty and the mystery of the mountains. I love to hike and am lucky to live in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains here in the desert. But that particular hike in the shadow of the Zugspitz was just glorious.

Jan

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