first love <br />this lonely school corridor <br />still as lonely, cold <br /> <br />Inspired by: <br /> <br />Her Voice <br /> <br />THE wild bee reels from bough to bough <br />With his furry coat and his gauzy wing. <br />Now in a lily-cup, and now <br />Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, <br />In his wandering; <br />Sit closer love: it was here I trow <br />I made that vow, <br />Swore that two lives should be like one <br />As long as the sea-gull loved the sea, <br />As long as the sunflower sought the sun, - <br />It shall be, I said, for eternity <br />'Twixt you and me! <br />Dear friend, those times are over and done, <br />Love's web is spun. <br />Look upward where the poplar trees <br />Sway and sway in the summer air, <br />Here in the valley never a breeze <br />Scatters the thistledown, but there <br />Great winds blow fair <br />From the mighty murmuring mystical seas, <br />And the wave-lashed leas. <br />Look upward where the white gull screams, <br />What does it see that we do not see? <br />Is that a star? or the lamp that gleams <br />On some outward voyaging argosy, - <br />Ah! can it be <br />We have lived our lives in a land of dreams! <br />How sad it seems. <br />Sweet, there is nothing left to say <br />But this, that love is never lost, <br />Keen winter stabs the breasts of May <br />Whose crimson roses burst his frost, <br />Ships tempest-tossed <br />Will find a harbour in some bay, <br />And so we may. <br />And there is nothing left to do <br />But to kiss once again, and part, <br />Nay, there is nothing we should rue, <br />I have my beauty, -you your Art, <br />Nay, do not start, <br />One world was not enough for two <br />Like me and you.<br /><br />john tiong chunghoo<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/haiku-lonely-school-corridor/
