Night Blossoms

(from Carmel to Essen)

by T.P. Wilkinson / July 18th, 2021

Reach aching eyes

Tough tones
escape from buds
from solemn soil
extended
Rough colours
reach aching eyes
from tenuous moments
remembered
While songs
relief would gaily
proffer
Labour rich
absorbs all strength
Musical sounds,
like whining cats
like whispering goats
Challenge sleep
Challenge hopes.
Not one moment
of birth deplored
life and longing
joy restored.

T.P. Wilkinson, Dr. rer. pol. writes, teaches History and English, directs theatre and coaches cricket between the cradles of Heine and Saramago. He is author of Unbecoming American: A War Memoir and also Church Clothes, Land, Mission and the End of Apartheid in South Africa. Read other articles by T.P..

This article was posted on Sunday, July 18th, 2021 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.