This Poem was Submitted By: James C. Snowden On Date: 2001-02-14 22:02:21 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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High: A Love Poem

I dream: an entire continent shifts and blooming flowers bow. You kiss me longer than my heart can quietly endure-- so I speak to you in oceans and rock formations, sampling the way we communicate, in love with the absence of sound between us. With color behind my eyes, snow settles just outside the window like shoulders, relieved of a weight, loose beneath fingers searching for an alternative comfort. We resurrect the sun with sign language; your hand upon my heart, my hand upon yours. It is the apparent pull of the rest of our lives-- just like this, sheltered from the day's deliverance. Stars and cool air surround the mountains-- you are everywhere I look. The valleys change clothes, the trees build themselves like puzzles, and the forest's loyalty rests like some infinite, answered wish. An amusement of children laughs like reckless daughters, sons conjure valentines to secure a faithful smile, and we believe it all-- silent in our faith, unrecognizable to the common eye. It is a beautiful trap, this love, this daily experiment I cannot wake from. I have surrendered myself to the hallucinations. My head is alive with you.

Copyright © February 2001 James C. Snowden


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