Nowhere Can the Golden Light Stay (Mourning for the Queen), poetry by Ken Allan Dronsfield at Spillwords.com
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Nowhere Can the Golden Light Stay

Nowhere Can the Golden Light Stay

(Mourning for the Queen)

written by: Ken Allan Dronsfield

@KenKadfield

 

In the waning moments of daylight’s song;
night birds at rest call softly to the stars
cicadas and crickets noisily sing;
as the golden hour waves goodbye.

Baby deer and ducks look on amazed;
everything goes silent; it’s the edge of night;
a lonely Queen sits, shining her crown;
for nowhere can the golden light stay.

During the dark of night a misty rain falls
touching treetops along the deep valley.
Dripping from branches to rising creeks;
Sleepy eyes carry water from the fountain.

Memories of her float about the fields
from winding paths we feel her presence.
Into the depth of our hearts; the memories speak,
of an old broken tree that used to stand tall.

A hummingbird gently nuzzles a trumpet vine;
the sun falls gracefully upon her passing;
the old queen’s crown shall always shine;
But nowhere can the golden light stay.

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