There's a garden in the desert <br />Remote and tiny sphere, <br />Blue and green oasis <br />Hospitable fine and rare. <br />Verdant steeped in fruit <br />Ripe juices to revere, <br />Sweet temperate crystal water <br />Flows and ponds quite near. <br />To quench and soothe at bathing <br />Or on its shore to lie, <br />Sated in this paradise <br />Calm waters reflecting sky. <br />Warm hush flecked by callers <br />Wings flit through canopy, <br />Colours flash in upper crowns <br />Rainbows sprinkled liberally. <br />Acrobats on finest taper <br />Hang jostling precariously, <br />Sup on nectar dripped flowers <br />Teetering at each splendid bloom, <br />Or hover imbibing sweetness <br />Savouring berries bounty, <br />Spreading on the seeds <br />To perpetuate this little room. <br />Day slips through this splendid place <br />Shadows fall extend and thicken, <br />Anastomose in leaf and bough <br />Tranquillity seeps then quickens. <br />Star fall breeze waters shimmer <br />Lay the surface all ablaze, <br />In emerald, ochre embers quell <br />Burning cool and still, <br />Drain dimming slightest mauve <br />To dark and even chill, <br />Amphibian choir punctuates <br />The glory of spent light, <br />All uniform, faint and equal <br />A mirage conceived by night. <br />Settled in embracing arms <br />Beyond privations doom, <br />Secure in savoured calm <br />A foetus snug in womb. <br />Dreaming on far gleaming stars <br />This Eden set apart from gloom, <br />Blessed be ‘who enter here <br />By grace a chance to dwell <br />Love, sleep and safely wake, <br />In warmth ‘neath setting moon. <br />Tenuous island paradise <br />Blemish, save a perfect sterile sea, <br />Inimitable sacred garden, <br />Opal of antiquity.<br /><br />Danny Draper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/there-s-a-garden-in-the-desert/
