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user-inactivated  ·  1932 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Share a short poem. Here's mine "Dappled Sunlight"

  his years pass without her

who was loved upon a time

where the meadow nestles in the shadow

of the old crumbling wall, Roman wall

decrepit; aquiline but bent

  innocent as hypatia, heart in heart's palm

sweetly picking the bluebell and foxglove

humming melodies with no name anywhere

taut grass, scent of spring and youth

dreaming in argent, as queens do

  where now are burnished shields?

where now are bright stars?

where now are ladies' favors?

where now is flaxen hair?

only ghosts remain, imprints of footsteps

  and the rough stone is cold to touch

no chiming voice to wake his soul

to a vanished song, a once-proud company

in the twilight of an autumnal life

his years pass without her