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In the Gazebo ---Carmen Lopez @copyright poetrypoem.com/carmen 2/23/05


In the Gazebo

In contemplative silence
I watch the sunlight in the garden
Flowers in bloom,
buzzing bees,
intoxicating aromas
the moths and butterflies
circling the gazebo...

The high noon sun
is lustrous silver at its pinnacle,
but grows tarnished and became a low moon
in the west,
The romantic dessert table it once brightened
is suddenly a somber setting
suitable for a last supper.

Brown bristling balls of tumbleweed
trembled at the verge of the road,
dead, yet eager to roam,
the night breeze lacking the
power to send them traveling.

Moths travel in the moonlight, however,
small white ghost moths
and larger gray specimens,
like scraps of soiled shroud cloth,
eerily illuminated by the lights,
swooping over and around
but seldom striking .

In classic paintings,
butterflies are symbols of life, joy, and hope.
Moths of the same order as butterflies,
Lepidoptera, are in all cases symbols of despair,
deterioration, destruction, and death.
.
As I think of the lovely angel
sitting in the gazebo so innocently..... i wonder,
Is she more like a moth or like a butterfly?
Carmen Lopez @copyright poetrypoem.com/carmen 2/23/05

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