Forget Today The World's Dismay Poem by Gregory Wm. Gunn

Forget today the world's dismay
Although malevolence may loom,
Let us remember that each day
Contains a certain charm in bloom.

Let us begin without chagrin
As lovers counting luxuries
Below the shifting, morphing clouds
And drift away with vagaries-
Among the calls of gulls and hawks,
A guarantee of peace avowed,
Above the din of waves and rocks.

Upon this striding skirt of sand
Like question marks amid the reeds,
The silhouetted herons stand,
The twilight's eyes in eastern skies
Hold vigil over our lustful needs.

Bay water laps against your thighs,
Goosebump shivers, seismic quivers
Shoot up our spines, and in our eyes
Neuronal flashes of fox fires:
Orgasms vanish, twist and turn
Into the dunes, culverts, and ferns.
Forget today the world's dismay.




October 13,2008
GWG