Friday, December 18, 2009

Rewriting Swans and Other Feelings (1840)

The stars like swans have taken flight
Swans sweeping into wooded sanctuary
Swan's song (calmliness) folding and flying by night
All that has never been

The world can be forgiven again
A swan is a woman's heart speaking and born free
A swan's heart- a warm heart on a good night -breaks through
Night holds its music - swan-like grace, swan solitude

When I saw, these swans in swan sky -
At first I saw, a beauty on water -
I saw its everchanging life - swans of scattering swans -
Striking but still one white on water -

What I saw - swans on swanlike water - swan solitude -

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