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between the lines
“Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for
the most part, refuse to be written.”—Amos Bronson Alcott
and yet i read you,
glyph and word and line,
and contemplate you
as my book divine,
parsing you mornings
—e’en at dead of night!—
sifting fair warnings
from your naked light.
rude metaphors hide
underneath your eyes,
stripping all my pride
as deep longings rise.
giggle all you want
at my helplessness:
you know that i can’t
half your milk express;
for parts of you get
caught between the lines,
and i cannot yet
fathom half the signs.
this, though, is certain:
wizard, bard, nor poet
shall ever darken
rhyme flamed by your spirit.
© Copyright 2024 August 26
by Clyve A. Bowen♫
the most part, refuse to be written.”—Amos Bronson Alcott
and yet i read you,
glyph and word and line,
and contemplate you
as my book divine,
parsing you mornings
—e’en at dead of night!—
sifting fair warnings
from your naked light.
rude metaphors hide
underneath your eyes,
stripping all my pride
as deep longings rise.
giggle all you want
at my helplessness:
you know that i can’t
half your milk express;
for parts of you get
caught between the lines,
and i cannot yet
fathom half the signs.
this, though, is certain:
wizard, bard, nor poet
shall ever darken
rhyme flamed by your spirit.
© Copyright 2024 August 26
by Clyve A. Bowen♫
Published 27th Aug 2024
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27th Aug 2024 1:11pm
27th Aug 2024 3:57pm
Ah, thank you, Ahavati!
Of late, I have had fewer frequencies on these pages. The blanks were screaming for something from me. It was inevitable.
Sincerely
cab
Of late, I have had fewer frequencies on these pages. The blanks were screaming for something from me. It was inevitable.
Sincerely
cab
