Glimpse
GLIMPSE
My heart a pouch of rich wine overlays yours
A drop of blood spilled over an arum lily
It waits with longing intense, retains no tears
As it remembers its cringes of final fear when it
Jumped into your chest of steel
Your smell of fruit juice, water and old leather all around
My soul lays naked in a room of light
While your music plays next door
Our two plumed serpents dance slow dances
To rhythms of drums and pipes
Single notes of knowingness
Wordless sounds repeated
I listen again and again
Spacious a white room waits aged and innocent
In a no-zone forest of mushrooms, poppies and pebbles
As the piano vibrates with silence
While Goddess does not speak of
A mission that never ends
Surrender struggles to be free
Watching for symbols that appear and vanish
While progress moves worse than a snail
With a footsore over splintered glass
Drops in space hung on Venus threads
Pregnant breasts heaving and falling
Passing tests of temperance, strength, solitude
Swallow death, devils and darkened silence
Deep in a psyche of five thousand years
Across oceans of space my thoughts travel
Not knowing whether they reach your light or
Hermit in your head or the warehouse in which
You play with waves of froth on dirty sand
Seals and gulls glide and shout
A lighthouse looks on still and sure
Muck in the harbour awaits an embrace
Fried chips beckon and call to fill my
Open belly of waiting Sun as
Love struggles for freedom on a higher plane
With yours in ether on a wall I read
Still you sleep a hundred thousand sleeps of
Fear and watchfulness
In the distance runs Skeleton Woman
With tangled bones to be untangled
Knowing that long ago she completed
Her work of inner peace with honours
Spartacus and Helen looking on
Waiting not for you alone
But to fill your Heart for another work
of love, to drink your tears, to slate your thirst
Become one, two, three to ten again
As dough rises with surprises inside
Eggs fresh full, two yolks and cream
To be eaten on a jetty of harmonious voids
Love lost and found, lost and found
All over again
©ghairodanielspoetryandsong2003
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