Reading by Twilight
\nby cricketjeff on August 19, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nIn the gentle evening twilight I was sitting by a tree,
\nWith a glass of wine beside me and a book of poetry.
\nGetting lost in lovers’ torments and in lovers’ triumphs too;
\nWhen enraptured by the meter, I was wrapped in dreams of you.<\/p>\n
As the Moon got slowly brighter and I read another page,
\nWhere a girl of matchless beauty took the sonnet’s centre stage,
\nI compared the poet’s musings with the pictures in my mind
\nAnd I found the writer’s story had been left a mile behind.<\/p>\n
Now the stars came out above me and it grew too dark to read
\nBut there’s light enough in dreaming so I hadn’t any need
\nTo come in or read by torchlight, when I’d poetry inside
\nAnd an ideal English sonnet took my heart out for a ride.<\/p>\n
You were golden like the sunset, and then silver like the moon,
\nAnd your gilded hair a halo that would bind me very soon.
\nThere’s no wine’s intoxication that compares in any way
\nWhen a dream of such a lover ends a perfect summer’s day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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