The Frosted Glades of Everlong (Dancing Shadows Suite)

The Frosted Glades of Everlong has been published in All of Me Vol. V, courtesy of Shadow Spark Publishing. Featured art is by Pedro Díaz Molins.

Listen to The Frosted Glades of Everlong by Richard Charles Stevens (Dancing Shadows Suite)

Listen to Dancing Shadows by Walras

These woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
– Robert Frost

(Sleep)
(Sleep)
(Sleep)
.
Beneath the staircase
There’s a safe place
In the same place it was all along
(Sleep)
(Sleep)
As unlaced as the orchard bird’s song
(Sleep)
(Sleep)
Amid rustle of leaves and in bustling throng
For everlong
One endless dream
(Sleep)
(Sleep)
And miles to go before we sleep
.
I found my safe place
Of impassioned embrace
Now my eyes tell my face it belongs
.
I am love
Not a single blush less
Aside from this smile
I’m undressed
Each horizon feels fresh
For the moonlight is blessed
Every night I delight its caress
I am love
Every kiss such attests
Whether nose lips wrists shoulders or breasts
Not a morsel of bitterness left
Not a thought for permission’s consent
Not a single contrition to vent
I am love
Not a single blush less
.
I found my safe place
Where good neighbours make no fences
Where attack is out of whack as to exactly where the very best defence is
.
Sleep
Sleep
.
Sleep
Sleep
.
Not an action tensive
Not a fraction apprehensive
For I may lack common sense
But I am stacked with active senses
I can see hear smell taste touch
And such is very much reflective
Now my eyes tell my face it belongs
.
My courage and brave is ten thousand cats strong
Unlaced and graced as the orchard bird’s song
Amid rustle of leaves and in bustling throng
In the same place it was all along
(Sleep)
(Sleep)
I know what is right and know well what is wrong
Know only too well consequences
Of impassioned embrace
Having found my safe place
Where good neighbours make no wasteful fences
(Sleep)
(Sleep)
.
I am not a teacher
But awakener like Frost
Reacquainted with the night
Yet, I am never one time lost
For I am seen
In kind believed in
Thus forever heal whence bleeding
Wear each scar as a reminder
Of the finery of seedling
The only way around and very best way out is through
Poetry emotes when thoughts and words are spoken true
I am not a teacher
But awakener like Frost
I am love
Like every one of you
.
Beneath the staircase
There’s a safe place
(Sleep)
(Sleep)
In the same place it was all along
(Sleep)
(Sleep)
As unlaced as the orchard bird’s song
(Sleep)
(Sleep)
Amid rustle of leaves and in bustling throng
For everlong
One endless dream
And miles to go before we sleep
.
For everlong
One endless dream
And miles to go before we sleep
Miles to go before we sleep
.