by Rab Eden | Poems for a Summer Day
This pig only lived through my wish To have mucked-up pig on my plate; I apologise to him all the same For his rather regrettable state. But then, porridge is mucked-up oats, Ant this pout was last evening’s kiss. Every this is a mucked-up that And remorse is... by Rab Eden | Poems for a Summer Day
What’s in them? They are empty; But dark briarthorn tangles round them. Winding are the caverns cut by waters of the past. They say that dreams of lovers haunt the edges of the darkness, And phantom hours still echo there from days too bright to last. Who is... by Rab Eden | Poems for a Summer Day
At times the gold bars rippleAimless on the sand,Where the sunlight streams through the dancing wavesInto the dancing land;And there she would sometimes wait for me,My secret lover in the sea. She whispered to me of her dancers,Dancing their whole lives through.She... by Rab Eden | Poems for a Summer Day
‘I have nothing more to give you’,Silver nights and golden daysDrifted past.Glowing sunlight, silken shadows, perfume of the damask rose,Youth and love and pride and promise where the sparkling Tagus flows ..Tagus flows. Nothing more and nothing ever.I have nothing... by Rab Eden | Poems for a Summer Day
Lost nameless men haste on forever -Blood red ship and wind filled sailSwift bearing on that coast unknownMisty in its twilight veil. On boundless seas where none stands masterSunset slowly dips to night,In boundless skies which guard the watersHazy mysteries of... by Rab Eden | Poems for a Summer Day
(Apologies to August Zarnack) Oh sad fir tree, oh sad fir tree,How loyal thy dull needles!They cling to thee the summer through,In winter, spring and autumn too.Oh sad fir tree, oh sad fir tree,How loyal thy dull needles! Oh lovers true, oh lovers true,How brave are...