Songs For Scarlett

THE SUNLIGHT CAUGHT IN HER VOICE The darkness of her hair & the blue in her eye sang of her & transformed the world into a beauty a child could see notes like drops of rain dripping from a branch the sunlight caught in her voice memory forever holding still the song of the blue in her eye the song of the darkness in her hair. * * * * * * * AND THE SONG SUNG And the song sung to please had its own song that hid within the song or ran in & out among the words like delighted child hovering above or lingering below the melody line the song of my mother singing singing as if her heart would break or break the heart of others the song that sang her hiding now at its finish in the toss of her hair the tear in her eye. * * * * * * * EVEN TIME STOPPED TO LISTEN In my mind you will be always singing forever held in the spell of your voice even Time stops to listen & I always your child lost in the magic of your song eternally. * * * * * * * I awoke at 2.30 in the morning with the image of your mother and the song of her blue eyes and black hair singing in my mind and wrote these 3 poems down as if in a dream and went to sleep again. I awoke to the morning and they were still there. I hope they do her justice. See now how you who have set her singing in your poems…set her singing in my heart now.