Life's Thrust (Sapphic Ode)

Life's Thrust (Sapphic Ode)


Love's loss froze flesh to brittle bone
and pierced the night with sorrowed cry
while heart-blood bled its whispered moan
with questions, "why?"

Knowing love's care would soon depart
my daylight mingled with the night
and emptiness erased my heart
dimming life's light.

While ocean tides carried his name,
whispered caresses on each swell,
my languished soul asked who to blame
with my farewell.

My anger burned heart's path to love
with numbness pressing into me
keeping this woman devoid of
soft courtesy.

But subtle tunes carried heart's breath
raising a woman's wealth in me
to understand this pass to death;
to set me free.

As sunrise poked her sleepy eyes
past edged horizon's shadowed start
a gentle voice of compromise
lifted my heart.

Your earthy depth and guarded smile
held my attraction carefully,
and I with you would talk awhile;
shedding debris.

Your music played familiar song,
dragonfly dance in flickered light,
romantic moments, passion strong -
played our delight.

As your soft eyes held honesty
hoping your care meant something more -
my grieving heart, now lifted free,
opened its door.

Sunrise described as "hard to catch"
means more than just a rising orb;
its deeper meaning would dispatch
what I absorb.

Love's brilliance comes much like the sun
in lifting more than light from dark
with healing when the heart's undone;
striking warm spark.

Life's travels are the courses taught,
through painful vice's pinching clasp,
that stronger love with wisdom brought
within our grasp.

And as your hand gently takes mine
new love matures through smoke and dust
feeling the growth living defines
within life's thrust.


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This Sapphic Ode is based on the adage:  "Hope springs eternal in the human breast."  

I hope you enjoy it.


Reference Specs for Sapphic Ode (Pope Style)
http://www.poeticportal.net/component/option,com_glossary/func,view/Itemid,33/catid,360/term,Sapphic+Ode/

An example of this form written by Alexander Pope may be found here:
http://www.generationterrorists.com/poems/ode_on_solitude.shtml