Rain doesn't fall
Under birch and willow
The wind turns to zephyrs
As the branches gently sway
The dove, she soars and sails
On the floating wings of love
Until her heavy heart
Pulls her toward the ground
Like wings damp with rain
She nestles her face below a wing
Sheltering rainy orbs from prying eyes
And dreams of her phoenix-love
The brush of feathers remembers to her
A love that once
Caressed her locks with love
Once he was hers
Once he was here
But now is gone
A million miles away
The turtledove, she loves so true
Waiting an eternity of moments
For the phoenix to return to hue
But the rain never falls
Under birch and willow
When the wind turns to zephyrs
And the branches gently sway
Author notes
For WH.
Note for Contest: "Write Me to Tears"::: When I first set out to write this, it was going to be simply about something I had seen while walking in the rain. It had simply been a dove flying into the shelter created by the branches of a birch tree and a willow tree. However, three things affected the outcome of the poem - (1) I really really missed my WH, my love, (2) being obsessed with Shakespeare's "The Phoenix and the Turtle", the 'turtle' he refers to being a turtledove upon the readin, and (3) an overactive imagination. So I became the dove as damp tendrils of my hair fell in my face became feathers, and WH became my phoenix, my distant love, at the time, so my yearning for him became the dove's. The "rain" referred to in the first stanza is just that, rain, but in the final stanza, the rain was tears, I can never weep when I can look on the beauty of nature, no matter how sad I am, so "The rain never falls".
Makes a slight reference to Shakespeare's "The Phoenix and the Turtle".
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A contest entry
- Write Me To Tears by SilentMoonlight.
2700 points, ended November 3, 2008, 66 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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Little Shakespeare is a big name to live up to, and i was doubtfully at first. but you are talented and this is an excellent poem.
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It's actually not me being egotistical, it's a nickname many of my friends gave me, because I'm obsessed with him. Thank you, though.
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