[net.poems] Someone else's Work on My Mind

heliotis@rochester.UUCP (Jim Heliotis) (08/17/83)

I normally do not copy other poets' work into this newsgroup, but this
little song has been on my mind a lot lately, so I thought it might
help to write it down.

A few of you may recall a bizarre poem I wrote back in the fall about
the conception of our first child.  Well, little Sasha is 2.5 months
old now.  Anyway, here goes....


		Dawn, like an angel
		Lights on the stairs
		Muting the morning she heralds

		Dew on the grass, like
		The tears the night wept
		Long gone before the day wears old

		Time stills the singing
		A child holds so dear
		And I'm just beginning
		To hear

		Gone are the pathways
		The child followed home
		Gone, like the sand
		And the foam


		Pressed in the pages
		Of some aging text
		Lies an old lily a-crumbling

		Marking a moment
		Of childish respect
		Long since betrayed and forgotten

		Time stills the singing
		A child holds so dear
		And I'm just beginning
		To hear

		Gone are the pathways
		The child followed home
		Gone, like the sand
		And the foam

				Dan Fogelberg (1981?)


... oh, well, maybe you need the music to appreciate it;  it's like a lullaby.

Jim Heliotis
(@)Rochester(!)