Entente CordialeEntente CordialeEntente Cordiale
I do not share your choice of interests Nor in your delights at the games you play, Against your politics I’ve made protests I disagree with much you have to say. Your tastes; in music, film, or in the arts, Do nothing to rouse my deepest passions Stirring up no great raptures within my heart, I do not pray to your God, nor follow like fashions. Yet through all these things on which we differ The love we share remains unshaken, Living true to who we are, together And respecting the path the other has taken. We are bound by no stronger things
I Walk the Lower PathI Walk the Lower PathI Walk the Lower Path
Whilst others tread the sun-bleached concrete street, I walk the lower path that runs beneath. Through shadowed subterranean chambers Where the rough-hewn living rock remembers All the glittering dreams the heart has fashioned, Every trembling touch and glance impassioned. And from each crafting sparkling crystals Bejewelling the walls of my tenebrous tunnels, Enchanting this tomb of the soft-sighing breath With a haunting beauty of an aching depth.
As they dance the steps at the material ball, I live in the world behind the wate
A ForestA ForestA Forest
I dreamed a forest of soft dappled glades Infused with a magical sylvan lore, Where the light in shining golden blades Poured liquid shapes upon its floor, And crystal sparkle on the glassy mere Where dragonflies danced amongst the reeds, The stealthy wolf and attentive deer Both came to drink in their shared need.
So, on that lake’s soft shore I lay
As a delicate breeze played on my skin Causing the purple aconite to sway, The trees conversed through whispering. Then their branches did unfurl to me And from the breathing bark di
