Forest Nymph Ballerina
Pale and flying sensuous nymph
Flitting in the forest glimpsed
By hunters pulling stinging bows
Whose arrows seek a leaping doe
Escape by stretching further still
Your agile thighs and thwart their kill
By thrusting forth your pointed toe
Deflecting arrows as they flow
Your glance is wild and innocent
Learning grace with deep intent
Weave into my breaking heart
Your joyful ecstasy of art
Know that your soft secret smile
Plucks the strings of ancient lyres
Love cares for you, it's sweetest balm
Is seeping from your graceful palms
Within my forest dense and deep
Demons lulled to silent sleep
By you, nimble, bashful fawn
Quickly come the rays of dawn
All the spirits of the night
Banished by you, virtuous sprite
Spread morning glare to ominous shades
Let dewy bluebells fill the glade
In the blissful daylight bower
Pastoral toes and crystal showers
Sowing with your gentle hands
Seeds of truth on barren land
Winsome fairy don't poets forsake
Drowning in the murky lake
Eels are coiling round our soul
Despair does drag us in it's hole
But your orange blossom glance
Hopeful brave and cheerful dance
Will lift us from the watery drain
Unravel all our seering pain
Our captive spirit by your side
As on whisper winds you glide
Into rapturous veils of air
We journey in your maiden care
Richard Field
May 2003
