Alone, Clayre, On Parting & Other Poetry

By Kevin Nicholas Roberts

Featured in New Lyre Summer 2022

On Parting 

You seem a sad forgotten flower 
Plucked from some placid fairy-place, 
Flushed and flecked with fear, your dreaming-flower's face 
Damp with dew and dread; 
A savage bleeding bloom, your hue 
streaming eye and swollen eyelid red. 

That I might stay another blessed hour 
To kiss the tears from parted petal-lips, 
Take further refuge in your fairy power 
Another day, one last good night, 
And hold a hand more bright and sweet, now  lost, 
Than even love is sweet and bright.