From dogwoodfarm62 at gmail.com Wed Sep 1 19:08:22 2021 From: dogwoodfarm62 at gmail.com (dogwood farm) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 15:08:22 -0400 Subject: [AG-EQ] The Garden by Moonlight In-Reply-To: <003801d6fd54$da9b4f60$8fd1ee20$@access.net> References: <003801d6fd54$da9b4f60$8fd1ee20$@access.net> Message-ID: Very lovely, thanks for sharing. Hugs, Susan dogwoodfarm62 at gmail.com On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 8:27 AM Tracy Carcione via AG-EQ wrote: > Someone sent this poem responding to the death of a friend's mother. I > think it's really beautiful and wanted to share. > > Tracy > > > > "A black cat among roses, > > Phlox, lilac-misted under a first-quarter moon, > > The sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. > > The garden is very still, > > It is dazed with moonlight, > > Contented with perfume, > > Dreaming the opium dreams of its folded poppies. > > Firefly lights open and vanish > > High as the tip buds of the golden glow > > Low as the sweet alyssum flowers at my feet. > > Moon-shimmer on leaves and trellises, > > Moon-spikes shafting through the snow ball bush. > > Only the little faces of the ladies' delight are alert and staring, > > Only the cat, padding between the roses, > > Shakes a branch and breaks the chequered pattern > > As water is broken by the falling of a leaf. > > Then you come, > > And you are quiet like the garden, > > And white like the alyssum flowers, > > And beautiful as the silent sparks of the fireflies. > > Ah, Beloved, do you see those orange lilies? > > They knew my mother, > > But who belonging to me will they know > > When I am gone." > > > > [The Garden by Moonlight by Amy Lowell] > > _______________________________________________ > AG-EQ mailing list > AG-EQ at nfbnet.org > http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/ag-eq_nfbnet.org > To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for > AG-EQ: > > http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/ag-eq_nfbnet.org/dogwoodfarm62%40gmail.com >