Chapter 1 tamarisk
Tamarisk conceals the path I took one blessed day,
Hidden in the dapples where the youngest shadows play;
Eluding eyes whose fantasy's to owe and never pay.
Hold the moment in your mind, the silver threaded chance,
In dusty-roomed confusion where imaginations dance,
Dreaming the impossible, beyond the sidelong glance-
Driven by improbable, a kiss with no romance.
Endeavour took my mind in hand; her steady earnestness,
Never let me waver in my blunted heart's distress.
Played on harps with broken keels- ambition to impress-
At least the strangled music gave me courage to profess.
Taking up my battered pride I tramped the pain away,
Hoping for a tamarisk to screen my chosen way,
Wishing for a debt to owe, which I could gladly pay-
And then I found the shadowed lane by which my future lay...
Yes – tamarisk conceals the path I take this blessed day.
Chapter 2 The Silence
Hidden in the dapples where the youngest shadows play;
Eluding eyes whose fantasy's to owe and never pay.
Hold the moment in your mind, the silver threaded chance,
In dusty-roomed confusion where imaginations dance,
Dreaming the impossible, beyond the sidelong glance-
Driven by improbable, a kiss with no romance.
Endeavour took my mind in hand; her steady earnestness,
Never let me waver in my blunted heart's distress.
Played on harps with broken keels- ambition to impress-
At least the strangled music gave me courage to profess.
Taking up my battered pride I tramped the pain away,
Hoping for a tamarisk to screen my chosen way,
Wishing for a debt to owe, which I could gladly pay-
And then I found the shadowed lane by which my future lay...
Yes – tamarisk conceals the path I take this blessed day.
Chapter 2 The Silence