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Is there sky Fred Houpt [boyboy_8@yahoo.com] Is there sky large enough To be an envelope that catches All the beams of light thrown Like sparks from my memories of you? Yellow haze round about a sunflower Is just approximate to the halo of smiles That was normal for your face Saffron and rose petals my heart became When softly you sank into my arms. No river could flow scathing and cutting That could tear asunder the connection of Our two hands knit one into the other Like roots take hold of the earth Yet now caught and held up in the air Like warm drafts do to milkweed On hot summer afternoons My memories are hanging on buttercups Lilting on wings of the lark You are still here, all here Never have left me, your skin is a scar Throughout my body, leaving roads and maps And hills and gullies and you are all here My blood flows with your hair slightly Covering your eyes as you wake upon A brilliant morning. Chemistry cannot explain this image Any more than astronomy can explain The love affair of the planets and stars As they dance and walk and swirl round About an ever larger partner. We all swirl, Each of us, to an invisible yet bigger part Of the whole. Is there sky blue enough to tempt the ocean? Is there a more perfect kiss of the air and the sea? Is there a happier embrace than my memory of you? Behold I am coming from the future, walking backwards And I am reaching for your hand |
Poem © 2003 Fred Houpt, all rights reserved
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