Tuesday, August 12, 2008

perseid

the clouds conceal your flying flames,
the archers are ready, they take their aim,
and heaven is angry, shouts and screams,
silver bullets through comets unseen.
o valiant night, swallow the light,
roil the beasts and hear the song,
life is short but lightning long,
so sleep with the owls
and listen to frogs.

2 comments:

the unholy atlantic said...

O: the imagery in this one is reeeally cool. kudos, monsieur.

Ianthe Wilde said...

you threw me for a loop at the end there, and i love it! (it = the whole poem, not just the loop, or the loop in particular, and you have no idea what i mean by loop do you?)
lightning is long... how poetical.