Dream tapestries

Chapter 33: THE POST BOX

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About This Book

A collection of lyrical poems that weave dreamlike imagery with everyday and mythic scenes. The poems move between enchanted woods, haunted gardens, village interiors and symbolic tableaux, using vivid sensory language—moonlight, apples, flowers, purple pall—to examine longing, loss, desire, and memory. Some pieces adopt songlike forms and short lyric units; others are narrative sketches evoking funerary rites, domestic rituals, and moments of feminine reflection. Recurrent motifs of time, mourning, and the uncanny create a tapestry of mood shifts from playful to elegiac, inviting readers to linger in symbolic moments rather than in continuous narrative.

THE POST BOX

THERE is something very wonderful

In the posting of a letter—

So few acts have the clarity of this.

A clear-cut, forceful and far-reaching act

Of pain or bliss,

So it may be:

Irrevocable in the subtlest way—

To-day—

You see?

The post box flashes red

A sign and seal of dominating law

Through April green, or hard and glittering white

Of winter snow.

One may have vacillated day and night,

Longing to end the turmoil, stress and strain,

Questioning what is best or wise or right—

And then post box gleams red!

Cutting clean through the world of indecision

Like a shout

Of triumph!

Then a soft flat thud—

Like tiny echo floating out

From a beyond of peace.

The letter falls—

Decisive act, prisoned in four red walls.