Summer of Love

Chapter 7: EADEM

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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.

EADEM

Sometimes within the garden of your sweetness

I rest and dream and think of all the years

Before my soul had bloomed to fair completeness,

Those times of shadow-laughter, mixed with tears.

And in my dreams I see a gentle maiden

Whom I once loved and whom I still love, Sweet,

For she is like a rose with sunlight laden,

And my lips ache to kiss her little feet.

She is so pure the very sky above her

Is not so fair with all its white and blue,

And so, my love, I cannot help but love her

Although my life and love belong to you.