Gems Of Morning

“…Dew-drops are the gems of morning…” Samuel Taylor-Coleridge (from Youth And Age)

 

 

The Gems of Morning

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There you are, ages old friends,

Round and quivering

Light gleamed and temporary

Telling me of tranquility

And transcendence.

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I am as young as you are ancient

Pushing my way through the temporal

As if it were a semi-permeable

Membrane. To persevere

Is not the same as remembering.

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Dew drops are marvelous creatures

Faultless and loyal they defend

The right to be whatever diadem

The world decrees. A string of pearls

In a box, or droplet sized diamonds, the sea

Will eventually give up her dead to sparkle

Like dew shared on a shore of time.

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10-09-14

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