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Silk Road

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Did you walk the silk road
on a dusky summer night -
damask moths disrobing the moon,
watching the west
sink into orchid hue
and the eastern star
slowly making her orbit known;
or watch the cloaks
of passersby swirl
indigo and amethyst
with the mystery of a scent
you could not name?

Did incense graze your cheeks -
pekoe tea and star anise
rising from the reeds
and slimsly grassed glade,
the scent of lotus,
and onyx combs to fan your hair
as you turned your face
to question the dark?

And did you dream
of some young lover -
sinewed and rawboned,
with gilt across his fingertips
to trace half-slumber
hiding in your eyes,
tasting the tilt of your chin
and your unsung smile
bringing the shadows
up from the ground?
Written for someone who never stopped dreaming....



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MrWootton's avatar
vivid.

"slimsly" - typo?