Garden of Poetry

A Last Kiss for Eternity

Save the last light for me -
That wane spark in your eyes
Before you are set free,
While in your worldly guise.

At the close of your day,
At this hour grown so late,
Before you slip away
To your eternal fate,

Let me sing a final dream.
Before you set out on your own,
Upon a heavenward sunbeam,
Before you leave me all alone,

Let me send you reluctantly
Off unto your celestial role -
A last kiss for eternity,
To ease your fear and soothe your soul.

~ Daniel F Mitchell

Look heavenward, O earthly creation,
All souls since time’s foundation!
Crawl no more on this lowly floor!
Cast thy gaze upward for evermore!
Arm in arm, let’s to eternal expansion!
Aim for the stars – our celestial mansion!!

~ Daniel F Mitchell

Divining Your Endless Sigh

See how the stars shine for you -
Countless points of divine light
Whose glorious fires imbue
With promise eternal night.

See how heaven pines for you,
Divining your endless sigh;
Dreams of poppy fields come true,
When in peerless peace you lie.

 
~ Daniel F Mitchell
 

Fading Alone  

Darkness traces the lines of my forehead,
With shadows draped before these fading eyes
As sins that no absolution might shed,
Nor penance while in this mortal disguise.
I plead guilty to the crime of being,
To the city beyond my windowpane,
With a blank gaze silently decreeing
The candlelight of all souls lit in vain,
Seeking resolution through amity
Beyond the glass reflection of my face,
(If only my loneliness to postpone)
Watching the beacons of humanity -
Like dying embers in a common space,
Burning together, yet fading alone.

~ Daniel F Mitchell

On a December night,
Hushed and blanketed white,
We crunched out across the snow,
Pulling our sleds as fast as we could go,
The heavenly flakes floating around,
Spreading more blanket on the ground,
Our pant legs stiff and creaking,
We, like wandering shepherds, seeking
A sign, something divine,
Beyond a field afar,
A snow-covered hill,
A ride, a thrill.

We might find it again, by and by,
Were we to seek, were we to try.

~ Daniel F Mitchell