Impatient Lover
IMPATIENT LOVER
Rise up my love from rowdy camaraderie of friends
longing am I for your rich
Embrace
Following the shepherd’s path
I pause.
Humming the tune of the morning dove who
Celebrates the creation that is your
Beloved smile.
Scented with honeysuckle is my hair
glistening in harmony with the almond
oil anointed on my skin.
Leave me here alone no more.
Cold grows the night, my love.
Howling are the wolves, scratching at the door.
Join me in our moonlit home that crowns the hills.
Whistle, alert your lean strong hounds.
Bounding they will follow you home
Encircling us in safety for this
our night of perpetual joy
where, as pups bay moon-dazzled,
Together we will dream
With you each breath blossoms--exhaling date sweet joy,
Rise up to meet my craving,
Forget the servant standing silent at the door--
linger but a moment--
Thrilled and a-tingling
I await our heaven-passioned joy.
Entrapped forever by the breezes
good and ill
Dancing in ecstasy we are feathers on the wind.
Twirling in sync as
each precious breath
magnifies delight.
V Anderson-Throop 2014
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