SELENE

Her jewels she gives into Eos' keeping,
her lucent train lays away;
divine opalescence that painted land
and sea with the mystical
radiance of dreams, that drowned the
stars, now languishes.

A fragile sliver of weary ivory lingers;
still her blanched, brittle
beams trace each arc and slant of otiose
dreaming, her stark, pallid
beauty as a plume upon rippling cyan
marbled with rose and grey.

"Would Helios carve your nacreous white 
visions, that pearls to Earth
may fall, the choicest to grace the finest
poet's vellum, the master
melodist's staves, that yearning souls may
panegyrise your pulchritude?"

"I shall bide, impatient for your awakening, 
o cynosure of gods and
man alike, that with kindred spirits I may
unite in your worship, that
hearts sundered by miles and walls may
meet upon your silver bridge."

© 2015 Lily's Verse

Lilium Candidum

Image: SELENE

Source: tumblr.com

Artist: Albert Aublet