Saturday, 1 February 2025

A Poem a Day (701): Bended boughs

 
Bended boughs
 
Sweet timeless things dwell in magic,
blood-scarlet tape and starlight hands,
we wrestle darkness into sunk oblivion,
tread streams of light to the next world.
 
The fae breathes life into the forbidden forest,
adorned in moss, girdled in stripped bark,
sips morning dew from a cup of leaves.
Nothing lives that she might dread in nature;
 
it twists and writhes, weaves her entire story out,
one to be handed down in scoops of words.
Through the shape of air she draws a picture,
dreamt of the one she would adore if known.
 
Then, shielded by this startling blast of rain,
hair drenched, she stands taller than the boughs,
waits for an arc of vibrant colour to paint itself
in this blued-out, carved-up, blinded sky.
 
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, February 1, 2025


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