Poems

Chapter 79: CARRIER DOVES

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About This Book

A varied collection of lyric and narrative verse that moves between short songs, sonnets, rondels, and longer meditative pieces. Many poems use pastoral and seasonal imagery to celebrate fields, harvest, and the sensory life of the natural world while also acknowledging the hardships and dignity of rural labor. Recurring themes include love, absence, memory, and spiritual longing, treated with formal variety and musical language. The tone alternates between celebratory, elegiac, and reflective, blending vivid description with moral and emotional observation.

CARRIER DOVES

Friend, unto thee I bend my constant thought;

Its current running as a stream to sea,

From hidden sources of my being brought,

Friend, unto thee.

If the wise wonders of the world could be

Found by a spell, sure my quick love had sought

Each potent and elusive mystery.

Into an amulet together wrought

To charm thee! With this full confession free—

I loose my doves to-day, their ways are taught,

Friend, unto thee!