january moon

I ride along the river, through the silence of the night.

Around the hairpin turns, and all the high beams moving past-

they blind my eyes to yellow lines, while certain death looms inches right.

My hands betray me in that ill-fated moment, my feet a second fast;

the steep embankment like a runway to hell, laid out for a perilous flight.

I see your childhood face, as I breathe my soft, untimely last,

beneath the winter moon and her concupiscent light.


Your mystic's mouth, that entrancing aperture, is near.

Where I should find a lifetime of disconnected memories flooding

my senses, there is your sustaining words, your breath beside my ear,

whispering of secrets I had only known in dreams.

Our souls, briefly unified in darkness, and devoid of mortal fear.


The corporeal desires that surrounded my every waking thought,

are but a shadow in the presence of your illustrious spirit. Had I known

in life, all of the beauteous wealth which I had so fervently sought,

lay only in your arms- perhaps we would have, together grown

to realize the ultimate ascendancy- the greatest lesson finally taught.


And as the night draws me too close, and you slowly fade into the trees,

I conjure every saint in the heavens to keep us here, by this cursed shore

to finish what had never begun, and languish all the light from thee.

You are paradise, found. And I am lost, evermore.

The water's incandescence, hypnotic in its mercurial beauty,

pours through the rocks of my fading reality with such earthly allure.

I search in vain for your hand in the mist, as I call you back to me,

I beg the moon grant absolution, and for all to be as it was before.

Reviews

[Travis Lawrence]

This is powerful stuff, and the diction is supurb. I love phrases like "hairpin turns", "concupiscent light", "corporeal desires", "mercurial beauty".

And I do like the story, the dying one looking for a lover, thinking about love in the last moments.

[~crazy Beautiful~]

"Your mystic's mouth, that entrancing aperture, is near.

Where I should find a lifetime of disconnected memories flooding

my senses, there is your sustaining words, your breath beside my ear,

whispering of secrets I had only known in dreams.

Our souls, briefly unified in darkness, and devoid of mortal fear. "
breathtaking
excellent imagery
i enjoyed this one very much
Nice work as always
thank you for entering my contest

[xXx JakBeNimble xXx]

wonderful poem.....
great writing and excelent imagery!