Bruce McRae \ Monsoon 2015

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Along the Darkened Path

And the wind is sad
and the moon is sad
and the flowers are the very thing
that is sorrow.

I last saw you among the lines and wires.
Blood poured through you and out,
every Christmas come to an end,
summer never to arrive again,
your soap opera over.

Sad-eyed, the birds circled the air.
They crossed themselves
and parleyed français.
They prayed for a good death,
their despair supernatural.
The sun came along and wept pure gold,
the river of life a mordant water.

Somewhere, carnivals and capers,
a jade sea rushing to a colourful shore.
But here, even the trees are miserable.
Their tears are green.
The willows are weeping.

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Pushcart nominee Bruce McRae is a Canadian musician with over 900 poems published around the world. His first book, The So-Called Sonnets, is available via Silenced Press and Amazon. To see and hear more poems go to ‘BruceMcRaePoetry’ on YouTube.