The scent of you
\nby cricketjeff on July 28, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nI caught your scent discarded on the breeze,
\nA hint of joy like blossom on the trees,
\nAn echo in my heart of early spring;
\nA memory that’s only there to tease.<\/p>\n
I felt your laughter floating in the air,
\nLike blackbirds proudly singing everywhere,
\nBut I could not enjoy that welcome sound,
\nI haven’t got the happiness to share.<\/p>\n
I saw your smile behind a gleaming door
\nAnd heard your dancing feet across the floor,
\nBut we were never doomed to share that dance
\nTo music that you taught me to adore.<\/p>\n
You knew my tears would fill an empty sea
\nBut didn’t take the time to say to me,
\nThat pain was only written in my mind,
\nAn imprint of immortal poetry.<\/p>\n
Why aren’t you here to take me by the hand
\nAnd canter through the summer days we planned?
\nYou took away the reasons to go on,
\nYour death’s a thing I’ll never understand.<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nThis was supposed to be a happy love poem, but it refused to go there, I don’t
\nknow why.
\nOh it’s a Rubaiyat if anyone cares, iambic pentameter in quatrains rhymed aaxa
\nbbxb ccxc etc., where each stanza should read like a separate poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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