Robin

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    IMINXTC Time Bandit

    Robin

    Proverb within portending proverb...
    warbling she goes...dancing along cold,
    diamond-edged, slowly thawing snows.

    Burnished-orange on velvet breast,
    each subtle, solar glow
    penetrates her mother's heart,
    to spite ole winter's blow.

    Infant grass upholds her feet,
    soft-bladed greenish hue
    drinks up the melting ice retreat
    to boast of life anew.

    Awaiting there this numbing death,
    beneath the arctic blast...
    Enslavened by each icy breath,
    I comprehend what's past.

    Enigmatic rhapsodies, her melodies
    stir long-forgotten songs
    of summer-breeze among the trees.
    of innocence now-gone.

    Her shrill, it echoes time's refrain:
    "How great, how great the loss,
    To drink of splendid autumn's rain
    now swept away like dross."

    But deep within that ruby voice
    a memory rings clear,
    where once I'd heard the Savior's choice,
    Eternity draws near.


    2009 Stephen F. Ashford
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