#fromthenorthsea
when the waves of the sea sang of summer,
wan midnights and flowers beguiled
by a love strong and tender in slumber,
awakening tumultuous and wild,
oh, love, sweetest love, won’t you listen
to the song that the fierce sea sang,
while the desolate waves seemed to glisten
and silver bells rang.
oh, my love, oh, my love, hear the fire
of the love that has blossomed for you,
a song full of want and desire,
and all of its dreams about you,
the wind fires up through the mountains,
the clouds fill the desolate sky,
the waters of earth fill the fountains
and all the seas sigh.
and i never felt love for another
as strong or as passionate as for you,
and my legs longed for yours like a lover,
and forever they’d stay ever true,
up high in the night sky the birds fly
and plunder the sorceress moon,
and love in her waves gives a soft sigh
and falls in a swoon.
the solitary sea starts to whisper,
with a love that n’er knows of a god,
and the mist on the sea-wall grows crisper,
as it dampens the ghosts of the sod,
and love cries out loudly at sunrise
toes dipped in the trembling dew,
forgetting the murmurs of moonrise
besotted and blue.
the wind now no longer seeks shelter,
curves the clouds who now run and then run,
sings of tides full of moonlight who welter
with tears (though no gift of the sun,)
and these tears for my love i now carry
stripped away like the sun and the rain,
our love both soulful and arbitrary,
flowing true in the vein.
the flowers of midnight are calling
like lilies with petals outspread,
on an ocean that dreams as it’s falling,
and falls like an anchor of lead,
the streams lift up high as if dreaming,
the wings of the wind’s edges bleed,
and all of their wonderful streaming
begins to recede.
the sun sung out once to the morning,
unshackled the wings of the seas
who flew as the light started dawning,
as the sea water started to unfreeze,
day more of the morning soon conjured
of magics both dreadful and free
of tenderness’s sweetly outnumbered
like your love for me.
the brightening bird grows to an ocean,
its brilliant wings full of day,
and our hearts sing out loud with emotion,
the clouds float along in their greys,
the light in the sky starts to shiver,
no longer of evening and night,
sings songs of the moon’s lonely river
her lamps set alight.
Feb 27, 2020
Feb 27, 2020 at 1:06 PM UTC
the star of the star of the morning
is restful and tranquil and free
the star of the star of the evening
blossoms dark as a shadowy tree,
the waves drive out far in their rivers
as blue as a star in the sky,
and the darkness relents for her shivers
must finally die.
waves turning and burning and dancing
clouds wandering e'er ever on
and the darkness that finds the new morning,
as cold as stark night's bitter song,
oh, brother who wept for my sisters
no tears as alive as their breath
swept out where the wild sea blisters
and pain knows of death.
wild whispers, wild birds and the fury
of waves that sing out to the clouds
the death then of life that we bury
laid out in the whitest of shrouds
the sea, oh, the sea, how she sings me
a song of a dance never sung
and her rhythms soon calm and placate me
her bell solemn rung.
and sweet love is the journey i strive for
as blue as a mysterious sea
and the love is a fruit full of succour,
and the moment will live e'er free,
you stand tragic as a painting so mournful
alone as a poet who rests,
and the lull of the storms here at night fall
the sea's treasure chests.
the day wraps the night in her roses
and night wraps the day in her sight
and midnight's soft moonlight supposes
that day is a journey e'er bright,
and love was a love still forever
and love had no rose in her bower
for the floor of the sea like a feather
the most delicate flower.
Feb 1, 2020
Feb 1, 2020 at 2:36 PM UTC
the clouds white as white at their edges,
the moon like a gem set in cloud,
the cliffs with the birds on their ledges,
far away where the weary waves bowed,
love strong of wild heart and compassion,
love decent and as gorgeous as mist
that blooms like the waves full of passion
or like lovers that kissed.
dark sky, dark delight and an ocean,
that rushes to the coast on a wave,
dark blossom of the night like a potion,
love always romantic and brave,
gold star loved like the soft song of e’ven
gold star lighting up the night sky,
the night lit as pretty as heaven,
or juliette’s sigh.
our love once won and then sadly forgotten,
that died in cold februarys frost,
not given time to enjoy the new blossom,
of spring’s pretty blooms quickly lost,
yet love mourned forever for losing,
a heart like a dragon once slain,
all the passion, the heart-ache, the yearning,
washed out in the rain.
Jan 10, 2020
Jan 10, 2020 at 8:41 PM UTC
the sea like some colossal round barrel,
rolling swiftly along with the tide,
as the bright summer waves lost their quarrel
with a wind that had blossomed and sighed,
strange night full of clouds, full of ocean
full of gulls hanging wings on the sky,
while the waves with their depth and emotion,
must finally die.
waves enchanting and rolling and curling
a sky deep in love with the wave
where the ghost of the moon-tide is haunting,
that n’er found release from the grave,
the sea with her linens and moonshine
as white as a sheet on a line,
where the wind catches a note of the sea brine,
and your love is mine.
dear lover, our love was a sea tune
that sang out of a love ever free,
as our kisses that delighted the night moon,
brought contentment to you and to me,
our love an incredible fire,
that haunts us from dawn until dusk,
with an opiate-like song of desire
filled with fragrance and musk.
love deeper and softer and sweeter,
love more of freedom than strife,
dark glance full of fire and fever,
fire and fever and elixir of life,
love never cold quenched or forgotten
bold as bold and incredible of flame,
love fabulous, searing and wanton
love impossible to tame.
there are magics that sweet lovers treasure
there are kisses of love and of light,
and love that is impossible to measure,
carried along by the song of the night,
and jealous our song to each other,
the jealousy e’er bittersweet,
the ghost and the sky and the lover,
the rose at our feet.
Jan 18, 2020
Jan 18, 2020 at 1:30 PM UTC