Winter Repose

'Tis time, dim autumn lights and let hearts turn to winter repose.

© Ilija Lukić 2017

Winter Repose

Infinitude

Footfalls rustle at death’s door

Sunbeams reveal time without end

Infinitude beckons inner self

© Ilija Lukić 2017

Infinitude
(Old Rock Spring Baptist Church at historic Chatham County cemetery, Pittsboro NC USA)

Shadowless Pulchritude

Chilled hush enfolds misty woodland,

Feathered summer guests have gone,

Quietude reigns until raucous raven band

Declares any heaviness of heart undone.

Rejoice, they squawk, adorned in gold,

Delight in crimson splash on nearby ridge,

Discover frosted fields in realm age-old

And lovers in embrace on covered bridge.

Treasure promises of abundant spring,

Recall midsummer lightning bug romance,

Hold dear Harvest Moon merrymaking

And mindful surrender of self to life's dance.

Fear not, take wing in shadowless silence, alas,

Pulchritude endures in withered leaf and grass.

© Ilija Lukić 2017

Shadowless Silence

Boulder Gardens

In daydreams I meander

Stony-rough banks of river wild,

Where reverie brings to mind

Turbulent stretches of water

And stately boulder gardens

In tawny flows of Adam’s ale.

I muse over single droplet

Caught in spirited whitewater,

Destined for sandy shore

And frothy waves on briny deep.

Then comes eleventh hour

Of my midsummer daydreams. 

I pause and ponder said droplet

On its fateful quest to know its place

In aforesaid chaos of risky water worlds,

Torn between comfort in age-old seaways

And ethereal mists below starlit skies

Awash in first light hues.

In the end, its place was always

Alongside boulder gardens

In restful shade of sycamores

Rooted to banks of river wild.

© Ilija Lukić 2017

Rockbound Harmony
(Haw River late-September east of Pittsboro NC USA)