A Forest Esplanade

by Will Read - Gemini

‘Yea, Centaur of the forest,
Will you hear my prose?’
That crack’d an icy breath
To lay in stiff repose.

Upon the fallen needles
of the mountain pine.
And yet, alive. Entwine
The lowly columbine.

Here. Twisted and encumbered,
Lived, in spite of all.
A love that thawed the ice
Into a waterfall.

Whose cool refresh did yet
Into a pool, cascade.
But once again return to glass,
The forest esplanade. 

Where cold, the Unicorn
Doth seek its solitude.
Unmasking lonely, frosted
Loves denude.

Thus. The freeze always
Precedes the thaw.
In the ice kingdom,
And the equine forests of the wild Centaur. 

Reason for writing:

    A kind of christmas feel to this one.    

Birth sign: Gemini
Date created: 2005-12-18 14:16:00
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:46:56
Poem ID: 71118

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