Thursday, May 10, 2012

YOU WHO CARRY BEAUTY


You who carry beauty like a poem
whispered in pearl ears of smiling muses,
knowing your gentle phrases can please them
to no end, how each lyric amuses
gods at their leisure like lovely children
dancing deer-grace through their Elysian fields,
dance on. You who carry beauty hidden
even deeper than your sacred face yields,
deeper than your ocean eyes reveal, show
me the way through green valley of your soul.
Guide me at your runner’s pace, vision’s glow
encircling your loping form, calm control
in your joyous song: angel’s clarion.
You who carry beauty, please carry on.

Roger Armbrust
May 10, 2012