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The Selected Poems

Index of Titles
The Rainbows End.
Child of Summer
Letter to Bear
The Washer
This is Love?
A Troubled mind
Iona Sound
Faerie Chime
The Hermit
Continuations of a theme
Ode to spring
A Tear of Truth
Ode to a Starling
The Keswick Carles
The Gates
Bel
Angels Sing
In Flight
A World of Dreams
Peace
Intimations of death and rebirth
The Flower
Ode to spirit
The pool of Life
The Seed
Soft Shadows
The Earths Rape
Ode to a Tree
The Hand of the Reaper
Hope
Leanne
The Journey
Sonnett to a snowflake
No Time, No Love
Beltane
Angel Bride
The Promise
Morning Love
Lost in Love
The virtues of life
The passing
With You

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The Virtues of Life.
Autumn 1997

Sometimes the thoughts which flow through me, are hard to comprehend,
How life, is flowing, oh so fast, what lies there at the end.
My minds confused, I’ve heard it said, I shouldn’t think this way,
But by what virtue should I live, please answer this I pray!
I feel my life holds purpose, from all the things I’ve seen,
And feel that I may pave a way, from places I have been.
I understand an inner truth, and know contented bliss,
I hold a gift, of love so true, brought by an Angels kiss.
I walk within the realms of time, and share this gift of love,
which somehow, makes me wierd, or strange,
Their words, not mine, my love.
Pray give assistance, where you can, and understand a truth,
The light I hold now as a man, which I did gain in youth.
And in my mind, I know a way, but clouds oft block my view,
I care not for the greed of Man, as long as I hold you.
For you are truth, and light, and hope, the greatest gifts of all,
You give me strength, you walk with me, and catch me when I fall.
I cannott know the answers, for my quest has just begun,
Nor can I recollect the words, to all the songs I’ve sung.
But what I hold, I try to teach, with words I hold sincere,
That love is just within your reach, cast out by your own fear.
So do I yet apologise, that I may sound confused,
My sorrow only is to see how love can be abused.
How wretched torment, rips the hearts and minds of bitter men
Who feel love is to conquer all, with force and brutish might,
I too once saw my love destroyed, before I saw the light.
But in the winds of heaven that now dance between we two,
Lies such a pure and tender love, that once I never knew.
So envy not the love I feel, for envy is a greed,
But nurture love, and watch it grow, from one saturnian seed,
Take care of love, and watch it heal, the world from all it’s wrongs
And there within the light you’ll find the words to many songs.

Lines rewritten in the Autumn 1997

Maélwys /|\