Fairy Love (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(for Annelize, after Ingrid Jonker)

The fairy-princess whose little lamp does shine
did last night give her heart to me,
she kissed me for hours which was great fun
and together we did forge strong bonds.
The moon did look at everything big-eyed from above,
it had been yellow but later glittering white
and we did in love embrace each other,
in front of the stars that fill the night like grains of hail.
The grandpa owl was hidden in a tree
while two doves did shyly peep at us
and with melancholy the evening breeze did cry for a mate
while we did dance at the chorus of the frogs and crickets
and the mother-night did draw her cloak over everything,
did cover us from head to toe.

[Reference: "Kabouterliefde" (Elvin-love)by Ingrid Jonker.]

© Gert Strydom