Across the earth
Thoughts of love are floating.
Those who gift their yearning
Nurture, in cryptic sighs
A deep charmed meaning.
The silence of the night
Beds down all their longing
Over the lush forest
Over the scalded earth
In darkness and in light
The loveliness of desire
Wafts its strange perfume
Through the rustling leaves
Under the ambient clouds.
The prosaic are safely in their beds.
O, how the chilly night rest its cheeks
Against this worn delight:
O silent love!
January 2020
Gar Jones
Thoughts of love are floating.
Those who gift their yearning
Nurture, in cryptic sighs
A deep charmed meaning.
The silence of the night
Beds down all their longing
Over the lush forest
Over the scalded earth
In darkness and in light
The loveliness of desire
Wafts its strange perfume
Through the rustling leaves
Under the ambient clouds.
The prosaic are safely in their beds.
O, how the chilly night rest its cheeks
Against this worn delight:
O silent love!
January 2020
Gar Jones