Life Companions

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Spring may sometimes seem light years away, but where love is concerned - for anyone anywhere - it is always a springtime of the heart. We human beings are but mortal, but the spirit of love - in all its shapes and forms - lives on in those whom it may have touched long after we have gone the way of all living things into that Great Unknown we call Death.

LIFE COMPANIONS 

The good earth, a show of daffodils

as we roam country lanes, you and I;

sunny skies, and a blackbird’s trills

good companions, to let live, let die

Pausing to watch a harvest gathered,

raucous singing lifts body-mind-spirit;
with our good companions, we soar

land and sea, friendly heavens well lit

Another time, autumn mists falling

as if to guard nature's best kept secrets
of life-death-evergreen as inspiring
Everyman's first and final heartbeats

You-Me-Us, engaging with all nature,

bent on keeping its world together

Copyright R. N. Taber 2005, 2019

[Note: This poem has been significantly revised from an earlier version that appears under the title 'Good Companions' in A Feeling for the Quickness of Time by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2005.]