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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IMPERMANENCE, by ALICE H. MERTZ
First Line: The love you proffered and professed
Last Line: An evanescent gleam.
Subject(s): Love; Sky; Trees
First Line: The love you proffered and professed
Last Line: An evanescent gleam.
Subject(s): Love; Sky; Trees
The love you proffered and professed
Surged a brief while and died.
The sands of time are strewn with shells
Left by an ebbing tide.
Your words sprang like the Judas tree
Into effulgent bloom,
But strangely specious they betray
Your heart's long, empty room.
The sky's bright pageant at sundown
Recalls a transient dream --
Remembrance beckons, and is gone,
An evanescent gleam.
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