Beauty, Like Time


…travels with you

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The summer comes
with flowers and orchids
fragrances
from a thousand different blossoms
on rafts of lilac tinted cloud
that glide on
to a turquoise sky of infinity
arrayed in silken sunshine
through a haze
long diaphanous draperies
of silken gauze
as gossamer
on an otherworldly breeze

the jasmine blossoms
sheds white jasmine tears
and the scent of roses
blooms as dark as indigo
with secret petals
centred in the throat
they glow amidst the afternoon
incomparably bright
and intermingle
dissonantly sweet

a sanguine lotus flower
whose heart of flame melts
transmutes a sensual desire
which its unfolding petals
freely strew
before its flames expire
petals in loose
and ruffled opulence
fleetingly glimpsed
then shyly disappear

blue infinitude
a gold tincture
shines through every part
a landscape
richer than antique brocade
sparkles
with intermittent drops of light
a swarming galaxy
of bright gold motes
down a slanting shaft 
of sunshine floats

whence scatterings
of petal showers
spread upon the ground
a carpet soft and deep
all evaporate
before they wither
and beauty, like time
travels with you
© Ann Bagnall
2013

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