Tag: time

The Fragrant Airs of Heaven

This poem was inspired by the opening lines of Max Ehrmann’s poem Desiderata. “Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.” Desiderata is Latin meaning ‘things desired’.

Idyllic loves’ creation is

imagined lilac groves. Air

enchanting havens of

scented flowers lifting to

the Harvest moon.

This world we may not enter

‘til this sweet and bitter

earthen road is ended.

Yet, we may store good efforts seed

do right as God’s creators

unbending onward to the Light.

Holding to heart loves first vow

that we unseasoned Spirit’s shall

by all intentions be

tried and tested and found well.

Do not forget amid the noise

such innocence as brought you here.

Times ravages are illusion now

look you to the candle’s constant flame

an eternal invocation to your name;

gateway to the Lilac groves

where the budding seeds of earthly toil

meet the fragrant airs of Heaven.

Rhyme Chapter Time

Nature is always reminding us of what we think we know and what we do not know!

In the noising babble born brook

here in the dell of this unkempt wood

under the sky torn kingfisher blue,

I watch water boatman swim great strides

forward and back in a mirror brown pool.

And all the insects I cannot give name

clamber across the circle of stone

seeking warm earth bathed in the sun.

All for my eye moist ear muffled mind

this paradise, this pageantry

this rhyme chapter time.

The warble, deep throat, high pitch sing’un of bird

flashing from tree, fern and bracken bowered bush,

appear from beyond the V of this hollow’s high shelf

where nettles wave their tear dropping heads

and the spring born rivulets breathing wet

rush lemming-like into a mirror faced lake.

I can just hear moor hen’s chirp, more silence than sound,

a chorus no doubt to a wordless symphonic hymn.

But wait!  I cannot yet understand the boatman or me.

Perhaps I should listen, look more intently, or just simply be.

All for my eye moist and ear muffled mind

this paradise, this pageantry, this rhyme chapter time.