This Poem was Submitted By: Carl Osborne On Date: 2001-07-16 01:53:49 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Love Poem for Sara

Come with me to the forest, Love. I would speak now, slow as an oak tree growing, long as the evening light lingers in the low, indigo sky. It is silent here: Nothing but our breathing, nothing but you and I breathing the green evening air. Listen: If I could be your love, dear, I'd tune this old guitar and try the chords again. I'd let my lips release a rush of rich red words of love. If I could be your love now, I'd sing to you in voice grown rough, silken songs of smooth delight, songs silken as milkweed seeds sailing the moonbreeze air. If I coud be your love. (My Love, you lie silent. Ah, quiver in cool desire! Your knight upon his knees caresses you upon the forest floor.) This dark wood drops many leaves and on our hearts have fallen many woes. But Love, let's wander in the wood, hand in hand, wrapt sweet in green-gold shade. The swain who worships at your feet seven times seven swears it can be so. (My Love, if I could catch the little shivers of your spine, I'd gild them one by one and twine them in your hair and let them shine-- if I could be, at last, your love.)

Copyright © July 2001 Carl Osborne


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