A love in verse

Another Light

2000-10-16
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If I don’t find you in the rain

I’ll send the rain back up again

The moisture of your mouth is better


Sky? There must be finer blue

To look upon, a lovelier hue:

Your eyes – the sky’s your debtor


And when the birds sing their dull song

I’ll shoo them off, say “No, you’re wrong – 

Her notes are like a sinfonietta”


And when the sun sends feeble rays

I’ll say “another lights my days – 

You’re boring since I met her”


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The Ancient Butterfly

When love and lust are turned to dust 

And time has gone doolally

A butterfly will flutter by...

Heaven

I strode home through the rec

A fine wintry evening, one star alight

And a lonely plane, in the dimmed blue sky...