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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ENVISIONED MEMORIES, by GEORGIA PERLE SCHMIDT
First Line: Morning mists hang heavy over
Last Line: Of the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schmidt, G. Perle
Subject(s): Memory
First Line: Morning mists hang heavy over
Last Line: Of the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schmidt, G. Perle
Subject(s): Memory
Morning mists hang heavy over
The sleeping city. Through unheralded
Dawn I seek the Mission of San Jose!
I am going there to pray -- Priests
Have left the odor of incense --
Holiness and holy quiet lead me to
The Blessed Virgin's shrine. I pause
To ply a flame to the row of fresh
White candles beside the Rose Window
And ask for the repose of the soul
Of my dead sister. I enter sacred rooms
And pass beneath time-fingered thatched
Roofs. In the courtyard an opalescent
Chameleon scurrys across the dim etched
Name on a tombstone. I climb the winding
Stone stairs toward the bell tower.
Something stirs in my brain or heart
Or soul and I am weak. I can go no higher
For my feet do not fit the narrow steps
That feet of saintly black-robed Padres
Have trodden. I turn away filled with
Envisioned memories, knowing everything
Is new each day and that shadows come
When eyes are blinded by the brightness
Of the sun.
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