~ Buddy Bear's Cats' World's Verse and Things ~

In Memoriam -

~ Leo: A Yellow Cat ~

                If to your twilight land of dream --

         Persephone, Persephone,

                   Drifting with all your shadow host --

                       Dim sunlight comes, with sudden gleam

        And you lift veiled eyes to see

Slip past a little golden ghost,

That wakes a sense of springing flowers,

Of nesting birds, and lambs newborn,

Of spring astir in quickening hours,

And young blades of Dementer's corn;

For joy of that sweet slimpse of sun,

O goddess of unnumbered dead,

Give one soft touch -- if only one --

To that uplifted, pleading head!

Whisper some kindly word, to bless

A wistful soul who understands

That life is but one long caress

Of gentle words and gentle hands.

~ Margaret Sherwood ~

©1999-2009, Roy York, Sr, "KnightOwl" aka The Wizard they call "Sergeant Pop"

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