Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Adieu le passé, bonjour le présent, et vive l'avenir

Adieu le passé, bonjour le présent, et vive l'avenir

Into the clear blue of a twilight sky,
Venus and her slivered new moon,
dance to the suns fading tune,
a swirl of cool iridescence,
twirls amidst the nightingales first trill.

Her Jovian chaperon,
winks through the wisping clouds,
as they play in apricot shrouds
sweeping across pale blue hues,
a divine smile flashing across this heavenly evensong.

'Adieu!... adieu mon cher, adieu'...

A glimpse of shadow
slips between the sheen,
a rhapsody of spheres,
caught within a stream,
eyes that twinkle as the stars appear,
from out the blue, both dark and near.

Painted with light,
upon a phosphorescent screen,
this tableaux of desire,
a simulacrum of a dream;
The mirror of divinity is rarely what it seems.

'Adieu!... adieu mon cher, adieu'...

Adieu le passé,
bonjour le présent,
et vive l'avenir.
  
© Richard Michael Parker 2012

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