Poetry

  • 5. Apart

    5. Apart

    From Songs of Youth (1998) Missing you, you are here. Your voice is in the willowtop. Soon I will taste your lush embrace and kiss your sunny cheek again. How sweet to drink of you beyond the span of waiting here! Like the sunlight streaming, I will come for you. Like the moonlight beaming, I […] Read more…

  • 6. The Resonance of Memory

    6. The Resonance of Memory

    From Songs of Youth (1998) So many days passed away: silences, the years, they never stay. Where have they gone to, those things I thought I knew? Oh, Lord, let me love this day. Let me take it. Let me turn it. Let me learn it. I could never earn it. Oh, Lord, aren’t we […] Read more…