Another day’s twitter poems that seemed to follow the same theme.
From the otherworld you come,
mist-wrapped, blue-eyed, smiling,
and in your hands
all the love that ever grew
in either world.
Thrill of the sun on my skin,
your eyes in mine,
and the sky above.
Waves lap about our feet,
while the gull carries our song.
In the sky above the shadows,
swallows swoop
in the last light,
before the dark inks in the blue
and their wild dance
bows out before
the stately minuet
of the stars.
Is there poison in this sweet honey
that drips so slow from your red lips?
Take it away, and I am left lonely,
longing to be the bloom
where the bee sips.
The touch of your hand enthralls,
your soft words enchant,
but when you kiss,
the sun stands still,
and no shadows grow.
Gulls, waves, sun,
glint and shift,
and in the bright air,
stolen from the dusk,
we rise, swans enlaced,
to follow the path of dreams.
Jane Dougherty Writes 