DazzlingDarkness

 An hour before dawn the sky becomes a crystal sea:
 Wind-torn clouds swim through the air like herringbones of light.
 Stiff strato-cumulus ripples crest and trough, flow and ebb,
    As they behalo the gibbous moon with a rainbow aureole.

 Now suddenly a star emerges, glimmers on the deep,
 And soon a second spark joins it and next a third bestirs;
 Then a whole school of heaven-fish surface to splash and gleam.
    Shimmering chain-mail-scaled, they writhe among the misty reefs.

 "Behold!" I whisper, while my spirit soars above the clouds.
 The moon flares cold beside me now, a silver beacon of night.
 Its fires bless and cleanse me as I hold my breath and dive ---
    Into the infinite ocean of the sky.

(see also TheBrink (3 Apr 2001), ForUs (31 Dec 2002), DayBreak (22 Jan 2004), ...)

TopicPoetry - TopicPersonalHistory - Datetag20041210

(correlates: GreenMountain, AwaitingNess, ForUs, ...)