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We stand West of a whisper Close to falling in love. Twin souls Bending over balconies Looking at Stone roses blooming In moon smoke. Passion Ties charms to raindrops Looking for a chalice Finding The cottage teapot Cracked brown with the age Of our tears. The magic invisible. We meet The bitter and the sweet At midnight Lighting candles in the chapel For the breath of fire Born free In the hanging space Of saints. We meet; Merlot on our lips As red as the berry Before death. The stain betrays us As the heart betrays us To love Where ever We must. No longer Part of the harvest That stains the fields We plough, We never surrender To the black sheep Passing through Our separate Lives. Years from now We'll walk Through the honeyed dust Collecting seeds Of a memory, Weary Of a path grown short, Shadows Gone blind. Crossing over In flat silence; our eyes Looking for grape blossoms See new spring weeds Growing up fences Of stone And black sheep passing by A rusty hinge. Sandy Lulay, originally from Woodstock, New York, is a resident of Stuart, Florida. Lulay is an "Original Woodstock Girl" who has been writing poetry since age ten. Many of her poems have been published both in Woodstock and Stuart's Sleeping Bear Review. She is currently working on a collection of poems that express the true soul of Woodstock, America's first art colony. Please, DO NOT steal, scavenge or repost this work without the expressed written authorization of Swans, which will seek permission from the author. This material is copyrighted, © Sandy Lulay 2001. All rights reserved. No part of this material may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. |
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