Recollections Poem by Nero CaroZiv

Circling recollections with the scent of spring bloom tulips
And landscapes of long stretched meadows to the horizon lips
Are the idyll of early childhood taunting years
Haunting me in shadow and in light; in dark and in clear


Cruel Time you so generously, graciously glorify, clarify the skies
Of these accompanying, flickering hazy memories
Returning them to a welcoming wounded heart to bare
Flocking like white butterflies, oh sweet fantasies of childhood days free of care


I remember dewy, white, bright, luminous, luring summer morning,
Helping a blazing sun to rise on wings of the breeze
Toward skies dotted with drifting thin floating clouds that tease
The fading cool night in mourning


Skipping school was never in the mind of the fools
To organize a clamorous battle against an irritating ant hill
In which rocks rattle and flow like bullets from dale and rill
Trenches and moats are dug, sticks and logs and many other war tools


Childhood of hallowed valley, of blessed calm and coolness,
Where holy rays and divine winds blast our days in goodness
How saintly your pure innocence, how fleeting your brief happiness
How sweet to rest in thee sweetness in hours of rough bitterness


Childhood memories circle and float like a circle in a spiral
A dream within a dream like a wheel within a wheel
Relentless, no never ending never beginning; intoxicating ale
Ever rotating, ever bursting on an ever-spinning reel


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