On New Year’s Eve 2015 By Bob Paris ©2015

Along this star washed road walking

We see all around the promise of

A vast and sacred sky and there

Angels wave to goddess and beyond

To sun and moon and cedar shadowed

Oh shining mourn gently touched

Sung out boldly from rippled memory

Thou shalt never find a heart so aflame

Burnt intertwine with this spectral oh

Remember oh remember

Oh do you darling mine

Magnificent gods race through frosted glade

Whispering bough dances with a kiss

While night lay bled and day crouches hidden

Behind racing tide before a door that opens

As love comes on a lingering flicker

Of perfumed and expectant wind

On New Year’s Eve 2015

By Bob Paris ©2015

Photo: Brian LeFurgey (taken as I was writing this poem)