Saturday, April 25, 2020

I love You



This is an updated version of a poem I posted about two years ago.




I love you


The chives’ purple heads standing on their bottle-green stalks

were June’s bright soldiers above the dun-coloured sandstone;

beyond them, on the hillside opposite, the soft pile forestry
was our wealth, especially in the rich glow of evening sun.

I moved closer to you, held out my hand to find yours already there.
to be links in this chain of beauty; and then I said, ‘I love you.’

It was not just the moment, but the magnificence we were part of;
happiness was bubbling,  the words came like breaking into a song.


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