On a night to a peaceful spring
(Inspired by Sara Teasdale)
Doors yawning back at dawn
Spring came to them a young and garden rest,
Light of delight, as the dewy rain,
Held me a darkness in the night,
Faithful and perfect as a river's rim,
Pale gold of shining meadow,
Pale gold of May, proud greenish turquoise,
Young April hushed the happy tune,
Shaken into roses of your flowerbed,
I came the young spring night together,
Ye can make a prayer,
Beside a look of love I looked enough?
Fair and still as fair;
Again the thunder of a poem
Or keep a kiss in song on spray,
A house of snowy hills above,
Twirled by the wind with a silver—
Young Time will blow down a yellow leaf
Went on a night to a peaceful spring.
Emeniano Acain Somoza, Jr., is a native of Siquijor Island in Central Visayas, Philippines. He was last based in Fujian, China as a second-language teacher after over a decade stint as a Corporate Communications Officer in the Middle East. Some forthcoming online and in print, most of his poems and stories have been published by literary magazines and journals, including The Philippines Graphic, The Philippine Free Press, The Philippine Star, and the Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Vol. 53 , among others. He has published three poetry books since 2010. and currently Editor-At-Large for The Syzygy Poetry Journal.