Seren

Jan 17, 2023 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

Lilies

I noticed that
even in death
lilies held beauty,
arched to one side,
white petals
glistened in the light

There were poems
in their drooping folds.
I reached into a void.
They cascaded
onto my fingers,
draping velum
across my hands.

Words seeped
into my skin
filling my veins,
they flooded my form.
A thousand sighs of awe
fell from my lips.

In wonder
I wandered time
fretless into a
glowing night,
a flush of bumps
migrate over my body
I shivered anticipation.

Cool summer air
brushed my face
as I turned
to a bright night
whose full glowing disc
haunted my eyes
with flickering glory

I closed my eyelids
as I found the poems
suddenly lodged
in my throat.
They spilled
from my mouth
and gushed
over a silent
empty field.

I stood still
for moments,
maybe hours,
eyes shut,
lips moving,
mind unpeeling.

Opening my eyes
in the witching hour
I had finally, excruciatingly
become free of words
and in astonishment
discovered that
even in death
lilies had found
lustre in the
long grass.

Through me
they had floated free
into another blush
inspiring the hopeless
with the gift
of a night in word.

Now eternally flowering
they will forever
curl their leaves
within my rhyme.

About This Poem

Last Few Words: For Ian, our sparrow.

Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Editing - polished draft

About the Author

Region, Country: Beyond the Black Stump..Australia, AUS

Favorite Poets: Pablo Neruda, P.K.Page, W.H.Auden, to many and various to include them all ...

Comments

Lightning Dust

2 years 5 months ago

Hi Seren

You told me to come join so here I am,

This is a brilliant poem. Wow.

Hug L

Seren

2 years 5 months ago

Dear L

Who are you? Lol I've told a few poet friends to come join. Now you've got me wondering haha!!!

Message me!!! I am so happy you liked this!!!

Hugs J x

Rosewood Apothecary

2 years 5 months ago

Brilliant

They cascaded
onto my fingers,
draping velum
across my hands.

And

Words seeped
into my skin
filling my veins,
they flooded my form.
A thousand sighs of awe
fell from my lips.

Superb!
Tim

Seren

2 years 5 months ago

Dear Tim

Thank you for your very kind comment I am humbled.

Hugs Jayne x

Seren

2 years 5 months ago

Dear Ekaterina

Lovely to meet you!

Thanks so much for your kind comment, I'm really happy you liked it! I will call in and have a read of your work later this morning it's 5am here and I've been burning the candle at both ends lol

Thanks Again

Kind regards Jayne-Chloe

Geezer

2 years 5 months ago

I know that you called him "Da". It was with good reason. He always had a bit of fatherly advice to you and everyone, but I think he was particularly fond of you, like a father to a daughter. I miss him too. He was the epitome of the sparrow. A pilot extraordinaire dressed in plain brown uniform. He navigated the site dispensing bits of wisdom here and there, and no one ever had a bad word about or for him. Thank you, Seren/ Sis, Love and higgest bugs, ~ Geez.
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Seren

2 years 5 months ago

Dearest Bro

I know I am not the only one who misses him, many of us were privileged have him in our lives. God I miss him so he was my Da and I his Jaughter. We talked nearly every day. He was and will always hold a special place in my heart.

He was so generous with his time always making time for the undiscovered work. He was the first to comment on my poetry and you were the second. We really are a family of poets. I am blessed to still have relationships with poets who are no longer here. I'm actually trying to entice and oldie and one of our best back. Fingers crossed.

Much love & higgliest bugs Sis xxx