The Ultimate Vehicle of Earthly Bliss - 8. A feather in the wind

These lines speak especially persuasively to me today:

But many stifled years melt away

Where’er your tread goes.

You are like a firebrand whose sparks whirl

Glowing hot

To buzz through the night. Wherever they fall

They thwart death –

You’re a laugh, that, as soon as one hears it

Fades away –

Like in my childhood when night-songs would sing

Through some far-removed thoroughfares.

I have been trying to reconnect with someone who was dear to me once. This poem reminds me that love is in motion, it’s not a tableaux. 

1 hour ago, Parker Owens said:

These lines speak especially persuasively to me today:

 

 

But many stifled years melt away

Where’er your tread goes.

 

You are like a firebrand whose sparks whirl

Glowing hot

To buzz through the night. Wherever they fall

They thwart death –

 

You’re a laugh, that, as soon as one hears it

Fades away –

Like in my childhood when night-songs would sing

Through some far-removed thoroughfares.

 

I have been trying to reconnect with someone who was dear to me once. This poem reminds me that love is in motion, it’s not a tableaux. 

An excellent observation, Parker 

Some persons are an inspiration to certain other persons.  The person referred to in this poem seems especially esteemed and inspiring to the poet.

The reference to a well and then drinking/imbibing deeply to the dregs-- beautiful.

On 2/29/2024 at 12:27 PM, ReaderPaul said:

Some persons are an inspiration to certain other persons.  The person referred to in this poem seems especially esteemed and inspiring to the poet.

The reference to a well and then drinking/imbibing deeply to the dregs-- beautiful.

Thanks, ReaderPaul. Your comment reminds me how dream symbolists say clear, deep water is representative of consciousness. A desire to dive in and swim to the bottom in a dream, they say, means a person has a desire to plumb their own depths to a greater extent than they are