You wore a ruffled, snowy dress...

YOU WORE A RUFFLED, SNOWY DRESS...

 

You wore a ruffled, snowy dress,

And the cool September breeze

Serenaded your every tress

With songs of sacred ecstasies.

 

The fountains and the courtyard below

Glittered like diamonds where a brook did flow,

As I kissed you on a terrace of white,

Beneath towers aglow

In the autumn light.

 

Later we roved among bowers in the night,

And a lovely refrain, wedded with the rain

Brought raptures from the skies above.

We walked upon furrows of sallow grain,

Dappled with roses, quivering with dew.

Then in the fields we confessed our love,

And all I knew was in the world was you.

~ John Lars Zwerenz (C) Copyright 2013