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Re: TPB: Light of Day / George J. Dance

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Subject: Re: TPB: Light of Day / George J. Dance
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 14:34:04 +0000
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by: General-Zod - Tue, 27 Feb 2024 14:34 UTC

George J. Dance wrote:

> On Saturday, July 26, 2014 at 12:51:16 PM UTC-4, George J. Dance wrote:
>> Today on The Penny Blog:
>> Light of Day, by George J. Dance
>>
>> The clouds of heaven wander whitely by,
>> exotic beasts across a cyan sky,
>> black clouds stampede upon the ground - they rule
>> this sauna world - they dim but do not cool
>> & as they pass it blows my mind:
>> a silent symphony I find
>> when shadows fold & drop away
>> into the lemon light of day.
>>
>> The trees are fountaining: cascades of green
>> proclaim their beauty for my dear Maureen;
>> the green is falling, flooding all the ground,
>> a verdant sea that makes me long to drown
>> & as it falls, I want to cry
>> to know that all of this will die,
>> that everything must wash away
>> beneath the liquid light of day.
>>
>> Her body fits me like a silken glove -
>> The sun is burning on my back with love -
>> Past life sustains anew life, layer on layer,
>> while brass of birdsong blows throughout the air
>> & as it blows thoughts pass my mind:
>> this light outside is hers & mine
>> for it will always be this way,
>> right here, right now where we will stay
>> within the living light of day.
>>
>> http://gdancesbetty.blogspot.ca/2014/07/light-of-day.html

> bumped for comments

Second read, quite good.

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