far through rain-dark trees
grey morning calls
silent meadows sing
an ancient calm
still in shrouded dreams
mist wondrous falls
twilight visions cling
night pallor gone
sudden with voices older than mind
shadows rise from stone
stalking canyons deep with time
where bones of sun-scoured hills
unfold and joyous ring
a holy dawn
far through rain-dark trees
grey morning calls
Autumn
Song Cycle by Patrick Cardy (1953 - 2005)
1. alba
Language: English
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2. aspects of rain
Language: English
sh!
listen!
silvery splatter shimmering patter
splashing and cascading
shower
murmuring gurgling
babbling gaggling
spurting and spattering
spitting and splattering
squirtingly scuttering swampily sputtering
tinglingly twinkling distillingly sprinkling
mizzling drizzling
stream
dribbling dropping
piddling and plopping
sloppily slobbering and sloshingly showering
churningly effluent
ooze
slippering flippering
slushy and succulent
trickling gargling
juicy liquescent
rippling and roaring
spouting and pouring
aqueous reeking
aquaticly steeping
and
flashingly plashingly slashingly thrashingly crashingly smashingly
damp
flooding and flowing and floating and fluid
sodden and seething and soppy and sous'd
wringing and watery and muggy and moist
drenching and dripping and dabbled and dous'd
pluvially percolated
soakingly saturated
wringingly inundated
muddily macerated
boggy and spongy and quaggy and rank
and marshy and dewy and squashy and dank
and
gushily slushily
and
gurgingly surgingly
rushingly flushingly
brimmingly swimmingly
spillingly and thrillingly and chillingly and fillingly and wonderf'ly willingly
wet!
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3. twilight
Language: English
remember
firelight fades and darkness drapes its years around
eyes grown dim and shadows lingering in dusk
remember
now alone but memories rise and softly lead
to the one whose solemn sorrows never fade
remember
to a dream that soared and spent itself in skies
so distant now and hidden far amid the stars
remember
and as the mist of mourning disappears
do not fear
for love repays the tender heart that can
remember
Text Authorship:
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