Summer of Love

Chapter 11: SLEEP SONG

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About This Book

A compact collection of lyrical poems that celebrates romantic devotion, natural imagery, and spiritual yearning, blending playful fairyland pieces, meditative prayers, and occasional urban portraits. The poet favors traditional verse forms such as villanelles and ballades and mixes classical and religious allusion with sensuous descriptions of gardens, moonlight, and birds. Short narrative ballads and elegiac tributes alternate with intimate love lyrics, producing a varied but unified mood of ardor, reverence, and pastoral charm.

SLEEP SONG

The Lady World

Is sleeping on her white and cloudy bed.

Like petals furled

Her eyelids close. Beside her dream-filled head

Her lover stands in silver cloak and shoon,

The faithful Moon.

So Love, my Love,

Sleep on, my Love, my Life, be not afraid.

The Moon above

Shall guard the World, and I my little maid.

Your life, your love, your dreams are mine to keep,

So sleep, so sleep.