I Sing The Night Alive

Alone, I hold the shimmer of you

Between fingers splayed,

As they play the music of your name.

 

Alone, the moon washes away

The burden of distance

Within the numinous glow of the star-saturated night.

 

Trees, ripe with pendulous branches

Sway to the hum of temptation

And brush the waiting earth

With tremulous forethought.

 

And, so clothed in cloak of leaf and bark,

I turn to you

And sing the night alive.

copyright/all rights reserved Audrey Howitt 2011

Reviews

[sarah]

This is so beautiful I really really loved this write I love the feeling of it it really touched me thanks for sharing! And thanks for your kind review of my poem :-)

[SkinlessFrank]

Alone, the moon washes away
The burden of distance
Within the numinous glow of the star-saturated night.

How I remember this feeling when gazing up at a time my lover and I were on opposite ends of the earth.

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

Audrey, this is beyond beautiful!

[Seshat Nidaba]

This is really lyrical, a joy to read.

There is this one thing I love particularily about the consciousness of women, it's their joy of creation and happiness simply to be alive [being very contagious]

Somehow your piece reminds me of such things...

I guess being in touch with nature does that to our perception :)

[Ed Hart]

well, you tempted me

[Muse]

This put a moonlit image in my head...trees dancing, ghostly singing. Beautifully metaphorical!

[KAREN]

Beautiful and care free!

[J. J. Nightingale]

So very beautiful .. A natural feel ...

Nice .. Jasmine :)

[KATHY SUE SILLS]

Love your romantic phrases, this was beautiful and a flawless write!