Merlin Poem by Kevin East

Merlin
Appeared to me
In reverie.
Wizardry
Sweet magic
You will never see
Did transport me
To paradise.
Clouds streaked blue
With silver hue.
Languishing
With Edelweiss
In perfume of air so clean.
That it bathed my soul.
Sunset unseen
Did heaven extol.
We ran
Through a labyrinth
Of clinging flora
Under the candlelight of Aurora.
'Tis there
Your eager lips
And glittered hair
Drew me to
Insatiable love.
Where white dove
Merged with a bleeding sky.
It was then the universe
First breathed a pleading sigh
As we rocked, unfrocked
Wet with the ocean
Of lost lovers tears.
Whispering
In each others ears
That mute passion
Such heat untamed.
Such joy unclaimed
By our grey world.
I woke in swaying field
Under an Oak.
Dancing rain new steps revealed.
As Merlin spoke
With incantation
And swirling smoke
A promise
That pain would lead to elation.
Merlin declared
Once explored
When ice had thawed
I'd walk insane
To safety
And In her arms remain.
As he leapt into the wind
To then-
Sparkle in a star again.