Poetic Hours
Online
Autumn 2008
Catherine Ross



Cote D'Azur
Sweet princess beside the sea,
dressed in pastels of yellow and pink,
Reposes this heavenly coast
amid earth's most beautiful gifts.
Mountains shine above azure waters
that bathe the gentle shore,
As her beloved people live blissfully
in this land of golden sun.


Walking in the Country Free
Walking in the country free,
I feel as though I fly,
Even as I tread on earthen paths
through fields of gold and green.
I stop to ponder, as I often do,
if the birds that pierce the distant sky,
Dream of treading on these earthen paths
through fields of gold and green.


The Blessed Souls
The blessed souls float softly
upon the holy waters,
Human vessels of divine light
amid the sorrow and darkness.
These blessed souls, the purest of blossoms,
cover the waters in the whitest of petals,
And, in this silken bed,
carry my soul to heaven.




The Imagination Lives
The imagination lives richly
in luminous colour,
In hues invisible to the eye
and known only by the soul.
Fleeing always terrestrial shadows,
it seeks the gilded land,
And comes finally to rest
in my carefree heart.