When you came, you were like red wine and honey,

You are cold and flame.You are the crimson of amaryllis,The silver of moon-touched magnolias.When I am with you,My heart is a frozen pondGleaming with agitated torches.Submitted by Venus

The priest is yellow with sunflower meal,He is yellow with corn-meal,He is yellow as the sun.Dance!Dance!His little bells are ringing,The bells tinkle like sunlight,The sun is rising.Dance!Dance!Perhaps I will throw you a basket,Perhaps I will throw you my heart.Lift the baskets, dancing,Lower the baskets, dancing,We have raised fruits,Now we dance.Our shadows are long,The sunlight is…

Must years go by in sad uncertaintyLeaving us doubting whose the conquering blows,Are we or Fate the victors? Time which showsAll inner meanings will reveal, but weShall never know the upshot. Ours to beWasted with longing, shattered in the throes,The agonies of splendid dreams, which dayDims from our vision, but each night brings back;We strive…

Yes, it’s all over.All my things is packedAn’ every last one o’ them boxesIs on Bradley’s teamBein’ hauled over to th’ depot.No, I ain’t goin’ back agin.I’m stoppin’ over to French’s fer to-night,And goin’ down first train in th’ mornin’.Yes, it do seem kinder queerNot to be goin’ to see Cherry’s Orchard no more,But Land…

Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with wordsWhich voice the passion and the ache of things:Illusions beating with their baffled wingsAgainst the walls of circumstance, and hoardsOf torn desires, broken joys; recordsOf all a bruised life’s maimed imaginings.Now you are come! You tremble like a starPoised where, behind earth’s rim, the sun has set.Your…

Liquid and cool in the shade of the reeds,A pike dozed.Lost among the shadows of stemsHe lay unnoticed.Suddenly he flicked his tail,And a green-and-copper brightnessRan under the water.Out from under the reedsCame the olive-green light,And orange flashed upThrough the sun-thickened water.So the fish passed across the pool,Green and copper,A darkness and a gleam,And the blurred…