Straw and ether: a poem

Dusk Above by Cynthia Irvine

Straw and ether

Gold and silver
Young and old,
Straw and ether
Silver and gold.
Sands of ages
Waves of lather;
Pathway ends
So it was told
By the sages.

Seashore tends
Ether and straw,
Gold for young
Old into silver -

Silver lining
Pot of gold -

Shadow and light.

Fisherman fishes
From the brining,
Fish wife mends
So it was told.

Crow has a caw,
Crab has a claw,
Cod has neither
Caught and sold:

Scales so bright.

Seashore tends
Straw and ether;
Sunset is gold
Make some wishes.

Pathway bends
Gold upon gold,
Silver on silver.

Light and shadow
Ether and straw;
Gulls like shallow
Whales deep draw,
Songs so right
By those sages -

Young and old
Mystic and callow.

Waves of lather
Sands of ages,
Seashore tends
Straw and
Pathway wends:
Into ether.

                                                                                                                         MLydiaM ~ November 2011

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