Nothing like a porch with a couch and cat named Spencer, surrounded by vases of sweet peas.......
And a book of vintage poems that still smells a little musty in the daylight......
I love this poem "IDYLL" written by Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) He was a decorated WWI soldier who wrote compassionate poems full of anger sometimes, but also full of the beautiful things he saw in the world. I read it aloud to Spencer. He just snored and drooled. But I think he approved......
"My dreaming spirit will not heed the roar of guns that would destroy my life that on the gloom can read proud-surging melodies of joy." (S. Sassoon)
IDYLL by Siegfried Sassoon
In the grey summer garden I shall find you....with day break and the morning hills behind you....
There will be rain-wet roses; stir of wings......
And down the wood a thrush that wakes and sings......
Not from the past you'll come, but from that deep.........
Where beauty murmurs to the soul asleep..........
And I shall know the sense of life re born..........
From dreams into the mystery of morn............
Where gloom and brightness meet.......
And standing there till that calm song is done............
At last we'll share........
The league-spread quiring symphonies that are..........
Joy in the world............
And peace............
And Dawn's One Star.........
Siegfried Sassoon led a gentle life, until he joined the war effort in 1915. He became known for his near suicidal charges against the enemy, lost many friends. After the war he wrote memoirs and reflected on life and its challenges,
finding peace in his faith and his writings about his faith in romantic idyllic pieces, in both poetry and prose.
Some of his other pieces you might like to read : "Aftermath", "Attack", "Does it Matter","Ancient History", to name a few........
"
In me the tiger sniffs the rose...." -Siegfried Sassoon
PHOTOGRAPHS: Michelle McConachie Woods 2016
IDYLL poem from "1000 Beautiful Things" 1948...
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