April Poetry | alex tamayo-wolf

In recognition of Poetry Month, and to celebrate and highlight our treasure trove of Orcas Island poets, Orcas Issues is pleased and honored to again offer daily poetry during April.

Onedinium

— from alex tamayo-wolf —

With her summer allies defeated,
And her sweetness eager to rise,
From her pleachèd kingdom she is taken,
Then crushed for no vain love of mine.

In Heaven’s second pale season,
Reborn fairer than reason knows.
As Nature and time doth mingle,
And in age and Grace she grows.

Her sacred bouquet by Heaven comes nigh,
And makes this heart to overflow,
With pied thoughts of love divine,
Proved in death and not in life alone.

Then, at once, no more swain trial,
I drink for neither bliss nor gain.
And she too is not confined,
To wealth, nor reason, nor things so vain.

The folding into blood,
That our Savior’s blood distills,
And the sweet questioning of life and death,
Answered, and a new covenant is fulfilled.

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