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Poems

Serenade

4 October 2014

9:00 AM

4 October 2014

9:00 AM

Come to the garden, that familiar place
Where life renews itself against all odds.
Untightening buds act out their memory,
And dying seems a momentary pause.


Our star that took an afternoon to sink
Hangs in reluctance from the darkening tree
Like an amused and philosophic eye
Penning his treatise of the out-of-doors.


We are the topics of his arguments,
Enduring his extemporised revisions.

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