So, you've a poet in your soul as well, eh? Well, have a seat on that comfy pillow, and have a listen:

Wings

On days like this, I weep for our mortality
knowing wishes to be thin-veiled lies
and dreams, the children of bitter regret.

My "lies" too bold to let that veil settle
too lofty for this earth to bear
their impurity too chaste in its' plain facade.

My thoughts and memories of life
stretch like wings beyond my arms
with hope tucked amidst the glistening feathers.

With Passion's kiss I would breathe it in
Life's soul into mine, and back again until
we rose to be the breeze that sways the pines.

Like Icarus we'd soar to heights undreamed
in ways unnumbered even at that awful risk
of catching spark to wing from blinding sun above.

Yet on this brilliant August day the birds leave
the pines and fight the currents of the air
and I sit on the warm, soft grass....

...weeping for our mortality.

Morgan's Walk

Morning's calm drifts among mists that lay
their necklace against Earth's breast like a lover's gift.
Color shifts in each tiny, floating gem as She stirs,
blushing her cheeks below the rising 'Sun.

(Walk the path of wand and rune,
yet don't disturb this honeymoon.)

That Sun has fooled the trees to fire's belief.
How they mimic Him; blazing their flames and flickers
to a Sky confessing neither blue nor white;
A Maiden's fickle heart; dallying t'wixt cloud and shine.

(Creature, man and redwood, all
within Her chilling boundary fall.)

Another few steps, and this cape drags the snow;
frosting the land in an ice-cream cold.
A solitary raindrop; oh, you silly one,
you hurried so, you forgot your lace coat.

(Drizzle light, and showers wild,
feed this newborn Earthen Child.)

A mantle-swish, and flowers spill from every fold;
baby-carpet for the waltzing trail of dancing slippers.
Sleepy birdsong tangled in their roosting-trees.
Ah, the homefires, as twilight follows up the steps.

(Once the ways of Forest known,
Morgan's walk goes on alone)

All selections are excerpts from "Poetic License~Journeys of an Old Soul" by Aredahne Qestrelle,©1996-2000 All rights reserved.