Castles

When I was back in the Midwest two months ago I stayed with a woman who has been my friend for over thirty years. Before I moved to Arizona we worked together on some of my poetry for a possible book. While she herself is also a jeweler and loves my jewelry she is sure I should have some of my poetry published. Just after I left she called me with data about a free poetry contest she wanted me to enter. It limitation was one of the number of lines in the poem which excluded a good number of my poems as I never think about things like that, but rather just hold onto the pen as the poems write themselves like automatic writing. My main subjects are love and nature, so here is the poem that I sent off to the contest:


CASTLES


We are castles,
You and I.

You an ice castle
Impenetrable,
Transfixed in crystals.
Your windows frozen,
Refracting the light outwards;
I cannot see within.

I am a sand castle
Fashioned at low tide.
The wind whistles through my
Openness;
Playing a siren's song.
All within plain view.

We are poised and landlocked.
Derived of a common element,
Erect and contained.
Bound by water,
We await
High tide
And the thaw.



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