Friday, May 17, 2013

"THE GARDEN" (From Eternal Verse by John Lars Zwerenz)


THE GARDEN

 

I took her hand beneath the quivering trees

Which shook their hymns upon us in the warm October sun.

Flute and horn, wistful and fantastic

Swept through the breeze,

Near azure brooks which forever run

Through valley and dale, mellifluous and majestic,

Gracing reeds with currents that shine in gilded rays.

I love my bride, and her angelic ways.

The ocean nearby, beyond the statuary,

Rises with the tide and caresses the rocks,

As she reclines on a marble bench with gracility,

Dreaming in her trances, caressing her raven locks.

And the sunset sighs as the fountains rise

To the nascent stars in the vast and silent courtyard,

As she speaks of things with her sanctified eyes,

To her handsome, young lover, to her passionate bard.

And our kisses are of ivory nights,

When the moonlight sobs, when candlelights

Illuminate the astonishing bower.

Come walk with me, my love, it is the hour

When all holy seraphim sing their hymns from above.

Come walk with me, my lover, my love.

 

 http://www.amazon.com/Eternal-Verse-John-Lars-Zwerenz/dp/1483616665

 

 

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Book Description

 March 28, 2013
With Eternal Verse the poet uses words in carefully crafted poems
to express and explore what it is to enter and exist in heaven. In
vivid language he engages the reader in descriptions of what was
always considered by most western theologians to be ineffable. In this
depiction of paradise the author presents a unique and personal point
of view, yet he remains faithful to the Catholic Church’s teachings
on heaven in its Magisterium. This astounding volume of verse is a
voyage through the fantastic realm of our eternal end.



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