"when the night is a splash of a bucket dropped in a well"
i found you in the summer
and the light clung to your hair,
when i realised i was a slave to your eyes
for all time i could hardly stand,
those eyes that coaxed the earth to flower
and fed the fire of love.
sometimes when we are still i hear
the night tide in your heart.
sometimes i am so full of love
for you i can hardly bear to live.
the morning swallows you in her bright
colours and the night wraps you in
the pale arpeggios of time,
i wrap you in love, pillow the silence,
undulate like drifting sand,
flow through the clear water
like a leaf tracing the pathways of the wind,
soften like fruit that has fallen to
the ground in an orchard
and then return to you,
you, my poet of the water.
Feb 10
Feb 10, 2026 at 4:00 PM UTC
"when the night is a splash of a bucket dropped in a well"
i found you in the summer
and the light clung to your hair,
when i realised i was a slave to your eyes
for all time i could hardly stand,
those eyes that coaxed the earth to flower
and fed the fire of love.
sometimes when we are still i hear
the night tide in your heart.
sometimes i am so full of love
for you i can hardly bear to live.
the morning swallows you in her bright
colours and the night wraps you in
the pale arpeggios of time,
i wrap you in love, pillow the silence,
undulate like drifting sand,
flow through the clear water
like a leaf tracing the pathways of the wind,
soften like fruit that has fallen to
the ground in an orchard
and then return to you,
you, my poet of the water.
sorry to not get back to everyone but the new site won't load on my i phone. i actually had a "trend" icon on this poem which was so nice - if anyone knows where the trend page is now can they please let me know- trend showed on my bell notification but not on my poem. cheers.
