Rain and Roses

<h2><SPAN name="SHADOWS" id="SHADOWS"></SPAN>Shadows</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="ig"><span class="letra">I</span> SAT with dreams and mated them with shadows<br/></span> <span class="ih">Where sunlight flecked the grass and trickled thru<br/></span> <span class="i0">Each swaying twig and branch of spruce and elder<br/></span> <span class="i0">Adoringly, they somehow spoke of you.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">I sat tense-eyed, my longing vision sensing,<br/></span> <span class="i0">An unseen, art-wise hand begin to trace.<br/></span> <span class="i0">With all love’s magic trickery displaying<br/></span> <span class="i0">To me; your hair, your pallid waiting face.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">In all these voiceless years of night and grieving<br/></span> <span class="i0">Above thy grave I grasp this gleam of grace.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Perhaps sometime, where is no pain or parting<br/></span> <span class="i0">I’ll smile again into your waiting face.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_12" id="page_12">{12}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />