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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
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
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.]
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.]
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