[AG-EQ] The Garden by Moonlight

[dogwood farm]

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 <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
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
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> "A black cat among roses,
>
> Phlox, lilac-misted under a first-quarter moon,
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> The sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock.
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> The garden is very still,
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> It is dazed with moonlight,
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> Contented with perfume,
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> Dreaming the opium dreams of its folded poppies.
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> Firefly lights open and vanish
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> High as the tip buds of the golden glow
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> Low as the sweet alyssum flowers at my feet.
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> Moon-shimmer on leaves and trellises,
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> Moon-spikes shafting through the snow ball bush.
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> Only the little faces of the ladies' delight are alert and staring,
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> Only the cat, padding between the roses,
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> Shakes a branch and breaks the chequered pattern
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> As water is broken by the falling of a leaf.
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> Then you come,
>
> And you are quiet like the garden,
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> And white like the alyssum flowers,
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> And beautiful as the silent sparks of the fireflies.
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> Ah, Beloved, do you see those orange lilies?
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> They knew my mother,
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> But who belonging to me will they know
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> When I am gone."
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> [The Garden by Moonlight by Amy Lowell]
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