Monday, January 24, 2022

EARTH'S CLOAK - A Villanelle


Of sun rays golden, moonlight’s silver beam

From airy, fine and fragile threads we weave

On loom of soul a tapestry unseen

 

We, in this vale of tears live by their gleam

A mystery in fabric light and dark

Of sun rays golden, moonlight’s silver beam 


We strive throughout our lives to grasp the theme

Of human history through the march of years

On loom of soul a tapestry unseen


No certainty we braid into the scene  

But flowing, shifting like the changing sea

Of sun rays golden, moonlight’s silver beam 


All beauteous forms and grotesque we must glean

Entwine in warp and weft through space and time

On loom of soul a tapestry unseen


We weave earth’s cloak in threads of lustrous sheen

Of dawn and darkly ebbing shades of dusk 

Of sun rays golden, moonlight’s silver beam

On loom of soul a tapestry unseen