Color, Depth & Clarity


Poetry again
has come upon me.
The Muse has come upon me,
removed the clouds that mourned impending death,
carried my vision through the fires that consumed my soul,
like some starry spirit perfumed the floors
of verdant Heaven's miraculous moors,
gave me life
and with her tears washed the chroma of my vision
with color, depth and clarity.

There upon me in blood,
in the midst of angelic spheres,
she bathed my sorrow.
Poetry again
has come upon the sea.

Perfumed in the spray of the sun,
she gave my breath to the clouds,
loved me,
bore my breath to the very womb of nature,
soothed my vision
with color, depth and clarity,
through the boughs and with holy caress lifted me,
washed my body in the mist that veiled the wood,
the bread of serenity,
and like some starry spirit loved me,
bathed my vision
in color, depth and clarity.

Through the wind that swept the shores
of the dewy doors of angelic spheres
she gave me to the sea,
soothed my vision
with color, depth and clarity.
Like a dolphin in the sea
she loved me.
Like some starry spirit she gave me life
and with holy caress lifted me,
bore my soul,
freed my herbal crèche from the satanic storms
with the light that consumed her wings.

When she found me, her tears imbrued the sun
and gave my vision
color, depth and clarity.
Poetry again,
has come upon the dewy doors of serenity.

I was without sight before she found me;
but with holy caress she lifted me,
bathed me
and with her tears flooded the fields
that embraced the midst of most sacred felicity.
Poetry again
has come upon the shores of angelic spheres.
There upon the lee
she gave my vision
color, depth and clarity.


John M. Marshall — 2004



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