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Coupled in Greenery

A dream woke itself,
As love itself fell upon us.

I recanted quickly all the lofty phrases
I spoke to you but one:
I love you without dream or consciousness;
Heaven as it were and still is.

I craved you like wine once, and would pour out
All the dark poison of me out-
Depending on the year of course.

Now I only yearn to drink morning's tears of joy,
That drip off the chartreuse spears of first lover's intentions...
The dew of doing, and water of the wanton we.

So many long nights alone, but not lonely;
For all have Agnus Dei, if we can submit to that one bended
Need of knee.

Now you sip green tea in the twilight, amongst high dandelions,
And rare blue rabbits run rampant;

However, our childhoods have escaped the russet skin of the west...
Now in your lap as wild forests and restless clovers calm-
They rest two and together alas!

I play Green Sleeves for the forest's fauna, foliage, and fragrance,
As we balance ourselves in the darkness like mighty oaks Sway,
Knowing the earth dissipates to a new verse:

Just because we fall to fall, doesn't mean we have to land.

c.2010 John Carroll Walls

Source: Wikipedia

'Greensleeves' is a traditional English folk song and tune, a ground of the form called a romanesca.
A broadside ballad by this name was registered at the London Stationer's Company in 1580[1] as 'A New Northern Dittye of the Lady Greene Sleeves'. It then appears in the surviving A Handful of Pleasant Delights (1584) as 'A New Courtly Sonnet of the Lady Green Sleeves. To the new tune of Green sleeves.'

poem by John Walls
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