Michael Edwards

SIMPLE CHORDS

 

 

SIMPLE CHORDS 

 

Above the multi-mullioned windows

chimneys thrust their brick and stone

beside the stately sycamores

which wave and sing to simple chords

conducted by the wandering breeze

 

Reaching down from branch and limb

and silvered by the moons first touch

where softened contrasts merge as one

their night time shadows shift and sway

on wood side tracks and gravelled paths

 

Into this scene a girl appears

a gentle lass of summers few

unpractised in the arts of life

and waiting for the warming sun

to melt the ice of youths reserve

 

Light of foot she strokes the ground

with shoes which dance to simple chords.