Linda M. Crate- Three Poems

green leaf 

 

so softly sings your beauty

a fae with wings

like a butterfly whose innocence

shines like the sunbeams

bent through the

crimson of your hair and your haunted

eyes know the pain of loves had and lost yet

you continue onward,

leaving the past behind because there

are reasons our eyes face forward

even if sometimes our hearts

don't understand;

you do,

i can see it in the fragility of your smile

your guarded emotions —

it is hard for you to let people in,

yet you do

because without them you would wither

like a root,

and you wish to flourish like a green leaf.

looking forward 

 

you were lost in the pale

of his moonlight

sweet faerie

with your wings of white

yet you still found

the magic of today let it embrace

you to smile again,

and sometimes i wish i were

so strong to let it go as you have;

but memories 

have always lingered forever

in my mind—

the wind whispers me secrets of 

old and new

creaking beneath the tulips

singing in the song of the oldest birds

pounding beneath the hooves

of doe and fawn,

and sometimes even buck;

yet no one's given me wisdom quite like yours

or an embrace of kindness so firm

i will take your advice

because as you so aptly said we must look

forward for looking backward always

makes us clumsy little fools

unable to escape things we cannot change.

teach me your secrets

 

your pale blue necklace

matches the sky blue of your eyes

so vibrant and beautiful

your white wings wrap you like an

angel, but you smile bitterly at

that analogy insist you're not quite that

innocent; but you try to be good—

dear fae, teach me the magic

of tomorrow so that i might flit with the

butterflies of today, and let my

worries melt away in the sun as you do;

i wanted too much to fit in when i

was born to stand out,

and now that i've taken my place people aim

their arrows like artemis the archer;

i know not how to feel except this anger whose

fuse has long been lit

my passion has always burned bright—

teach me how to regain my 

patience that's waning,

grow me like a flower blooms and never

let me wilt because i have already

rose once from my ashes

i don't know how many times i can rise again.