27 July 2019

Divided

By Bud Koenemund

For Lindsay

Lady; passion and intellect divide
Me. While attraction remains true, I know
Your youth, to my age, is rightly denied.
Like Summer’s bright blooms outshine Winter’s snow,
So doth beauty eclipse infirmity.
Nature favors one as others decline:
Fading steadily in obscurity;
The mortality to which all resign.
What can I do if desire’s forbid?
Only a fool would declare affection –
Exposing an emotion best left hid –
When silence affords certain protection.
   Love is safer wrapped in the guise of art,
   For speaking truth will surely break my heart.

18 July 2019

A Goddess and the Sunset

By Bud Koenemund

For Lindsay


(Photograph by Meshi - 2019)


The photograph shows radiance frozen
In time; a Goddess – like some Greek statue –
Contemplates sunset. Beauty in repose;
Veiled in twilight, her skin lit by subdued
Flame married to shadow as day and night
Meet. Aphrodite is reawakened;
A being celestial, burning bright
With fire only the stars can transcend.
Nature and Lady find harmony;
Their graces uniting to inspire art:
The image affords immortality,
While I tender verses writ from my heart.
   Muse; though these words are mine, thine is the praise;
   For ‘tis thy charm that sets my pen ablaze.