by Melinda Smith (b. 1971)
Waiting for the Sun
Language: English
I am a sundial In a sunken garden. On the days when you show your face I bask, all those long warm hours. You only see me when I glow, borrowing your radiance – but behind me, where you cannot see, circles a cold shadow blade. It gets longer the closer you are to leaving and in it are all the iron frost memories of the days when you do not come.
Text Authorship:
- by Melinda Smith (b. 1971), appears in Mapless in Underland, Ginninderra Press, first published 2004 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Sandra Milliken (b. 1961), "Waiting for the Sun", copyright © 2004 [ satb chorus ], Sulasol
Publisher: Sulasol [external link] [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2026-03-13
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