MAXIM LANGSTAFF

Select Poems from In The Raven’s Shadow

Revelation 

I hear the raven

Foreshadow gloom,

A jig’s fool

In magic cavorting

From earth to spirit,

Whose cry marks louder

Each fragile second

Like the sparkle of

Stars in the morning sky,

In the blink of an eye

Departed

As you rest your head

This shortest day,

Through window’s frost

I see, our sage old moon

Beckon to a dawn 

Radiant and bright

Casting asunder

This darkness pressed close,

Yielding to fate

The light of a new day

Here, reborn anew

On December’s

Silvery cloak

Woven dazzling and

Ablaze – painting a

Spell, boundless and blue;

While this heart swirls and 

Drifts, I’ll dance and sing

This winter’s morn

Upon an air more crisp,

Across forest more green,  

Costumed and dressed

In the wonder of winter snow –

You sing to me

Dance then wherever you may be, I am the lord of the dance, said he

And I’ll lead you all wherever you may be, and I’ll lead you all in the dance said he….

(Revelation; Discovery; communication of sacred and mysterious truths

by a teacher from heaven. (Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary, 1755))

Undone

If I fell between your

Parted words

In darkness tumble nowhere;

Thus fall without

A hand to hold,

In a burning warmth

Consumed.

If I held before you

Broken dreams

And secrets tied by fear;

Thus give to you

In gestures lost,

To a gentle kiss

Undone.

If I touched your soul and

Searching found

Tenderness adrift and blind;

Thus bind together

Two hearts unknown,

In silent thoughts

Concealed.

In the Raven’s Shadow

In the place where the wind lives

You call my name,

Where clouds gather to decide

And time remains

Like the earth it measures

Turning still,

In a vastness so quiet

It deafens the will.

Maxim Langstaff

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