This Poem was Submitted By: Thomas C Rocs On Date: 2001-04-11 13:28:27 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Pages of Ephesians

Time has taken you;   left me stumbling in the objects    of your experience.  Teaching how absence leads back   to the root of my yearling,    callow home. I walk up this mossy lane jumping     this crooked fence I made, so I could    weave my hands through.  Looking high above a cherry roof,    I would rest helping to keep    the sky aloof.  Passing pale pink light bathing    crayoned petals inside a flower box;    oil lamps scribble past stained glass    ignite a Victorian air,    that has been capsuled    inside for years.  The door I open   stirs a familiar image;   the gray of Grandmother’s hair   drawing lines in the Georgian pine    where the creche of Christmas    sleeps still intact. Antiques lying just as I remember,   nearly-abandoned;   sitting outside half-packed boxes    at random: wax-sealed jars    of homespun frosting, gingered   candy preserves. A toy guitar warped permanently   Out of octave, I find my hands   grip the hourglass shape. Polishing the platinum strings   to finger an unfinished hymn    I once penned, now fading under     the pages of Ephesians,    warmly vibrates in tune. Lifting the sublime second   heavenward,   without body,   messenger   sends my soul   to you.

Copyright © April 2001 Thomas C Rocs


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