Dragon Heart Of A Woman Ii Poem by Naveed Khalid

(Inspired by William Blake's painting:
The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun)

Of half-measured looks to my mind still
by what in the light of red-eyed woman,
stands where this world of furrowed fields
against the harvest moon o'er the wall on high,
ah, but in worn-out time too deep for woe
to illumine more bright by the west-wind in autumn,
some fault lines worthy of thy perusal,
of darkly drowned enigma of yore drifting dream amiss:
too soon shall fade from old-formed memory
his sweet-scented letters in silent hours of the night;
all wrapped in stardust of Supernova at my door,
that basest cloud to bear upon the sand dunes
along the pavement of cow parsley at sunset of the evening sky,
of some such snowflakes in winter cold by the sweat of thy brow,
that in the morning's pure serene of ages that are dead,
opes a garden unto my unweird eyen by the sea-ashore,
oft steals her beauty's fair of untread places far-off
beyond the sunrise that crow's quill beside,
by whose wing in ecstasy of heaven's high bower,
goes soaring high above the dale with pen-pricked angels.


(C) Naveed Khalid

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