BEAUTY XIV

A coralline climbing rose curved

o'er the hushed gap 

betwixt Summer's garden

and ceaseless, seasonless decay,

its heady scent spiralling

'cross greening walls and grey

into canescent, cortinate disarray. 

Clusters of clement cloudlets

showered their smiles

'pon this enclave life had forsaken,

blooms shimmering as

translucent pink gems Light engraved, 

obeying Nature's immutable law,

her sacred cycle.

Sumptuous blossoms fluttered,

as Zephyrus trailed

his airy fingers 'cross their satin petals,

these plucking as heavenly harp strings.

'Mid such music of Hope, 

light grew, multiplying as tho' Dawn

her flame had placed betwixt enchanted

crystal mirrors,

suffusing the bitter, dispossessed air

with brittle brightness.

Dewdrops fell  from lilting leaves

to the ground too long

untouched by tears,

sowing memories of joy and grief

that had hallowed the soil 

that nourished them, these golden

keys to wonders that awaited

beyond the spheres of Night and Day.

'Mid peaceful quiet, this space

now breathes, restored to wholeness,

weaned away from rancour,

its fragrant pulse beating in accord

with Earth's, 

with the heart of Summer's Queen,

Beauty's healing instrument.

© 2015 Lily's Verse

Lilium Candidum

Image: ROSES (edited)

Source: commons.wikimedia.org

Artist: Anna Syberg