Jun 20, 2009 | Poetry, Villanelle |
Life goes all at once so slow and swiftlySummer is vast, green, but cold winter comesLife goes all at once so swift and slowly The years are stately in their settled gaitsspring is so lusty, fall is so gustyLife goes all at once so slow and swiftly Love is a flower whose bloom is beautyJoy passes in the blinking of an eye Life goes all at once so swift and slowly A single thought lasts as long as I do,Yet something endures of my beating heartLife goes all at once so slow and swiftly To sing is to live in others, to find a path beyond the personal, myself,how melody makes me, not the reverse Life goes all at once so swift and...
