Friday, November 1, 2013

Stephen Spender-A Sonnet


STEPHEN SPENDER

glass of wine and collected poems
your Berlin years scatter across rainbow painted tables
outside grey skies hold back darkest winter
a second Hamburg in the summer
where different eras met different lives
you and I looking out to a North Sea
scanning memory, scanning depths
now I read to decipher why I like your words
hiding lifetimes in an instant,
I sip from my glass unseen by the many
who chat and yell in this place,
its not the chatter of fools just the beat of lives fading
patching-up heart filled minds
your ghosts waiting for me by the door…

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