A Tribute

Mostly to Robert W. Service, through whose verses I have caught a glimpse of the raw, wild beauty that surrounded him.

My heart beats a rhythm,
A rhythm of the seas,
The pulse of the setting sun
Goldening the trees.
Beat of the mountains,
Straining to the sky,
Drum roll of thunder
Blustering by.
My heart beats a cadence 
All out of time
With things that we silly folk
Call verse and rhyme.
Catching the elf tunes
Pulsing in the wind,
Dance in the wilderness -
She is my friend. 
My heart feels her pulses
And leaps in reply,
Chasing the white clouds
Through a blue sky.
Waves with the grasses,
Sings with the breeze,
Ancient as the mountains,
Boundless as the seas...

...I sit in my town house
With a cup of tea,
My mind for a spyglass,
My book for a key,
To unlock my fancies
And stray for a time...
Lost in the world
Of a great poet's rhyme.




Comments

  1. Fantastic, Janie. The meter is pulsingly appropriate.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Wait! Do I mean it's appropriately pulsing?

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

I enjoy hearing what you have to say! You can comment using your Google, LiveJournal, WordPress, TypePad or AIM account. If you don't have any of those, you can simply fill in one or both boxes on the Name/URL option. Feel free to leave me a link to your own blog or website - I'm always looking for more good things to read.

Popular posts from this blog

Waiting

Chatterbox: Wayfarers