Reanimated Lavender Granola Switchblade Nun rides again.

Monday, September 22, 2008

Our Lady Of The Snows



It was all so bright--

All the futures they said were hers;

Their wind of words stung her eyes,

Our shivering patron of the blind.


No rivers flow here--

No tides, just the cold-cracked moon

Too distant to conjure a saving madness

For Our Lady of Frozen Tears.


Sleep,

In your crystal dream of lovers--

A sky full of wavering willows

Bends over you like a mother.


It was all so lonely--

Not lessened by the dragging cautions

They hauled like sledges of endless noon

Above Our Lady of the Morning.


Ice shimmered across the floes,

Wrapped ad infinitum in ivory blank;

Blood came to seem better than the emptiness

Which afflicted Our Lady of the Snows.


Sleep,

And all a crystal dream supposes,

Will carry you where the willows grow--

Our Lady of the Roses.

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4 comments:

  1. Nice poem I like the ending rhyme and the photo!

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  2. Thank you, Arts & P. The picture I owe to a friend of mine. It immediately captured me and I've wanted to write her story ever since.

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  3. Hi shayfire, this poem Our Lady
    of the Snows, is haunting and
    sublime. The verse that begins
    with Sleep, made me shiver.
    You are so talented, a sleeper,
    yourself, actually.

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