Poetry challenge #29: Tears

I’m giving this idea another spin this week, a painting and a handful of words as a prompt. Please post a link to your poem in the comments. You have a week to produce a masterpiece.

The words you might like to use are:

Tears, horizon, fly, hue, stealing.

The painting (charcoal drawing actually) is by Odilon Redon, entitled ‘Tears’.

This is what I came up with.

Flight

 

Do I hear music in the light,

Stealing over the pale horizon,

Pearling the dawn with dreamlike hues?

Or is it the just the careless sound

Of your bright, parting laughter?

Could I fly, I would,

And follow where you drift,

But tears weigh heavy as lead,

Tying me with dull grey cords

To the dusky shreds of night.

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