Two poems by Eric Rosenbloom

THE FALLEN FAR

Clouds waft from over the ocean         And rain upon the land Rivers flowing return to ocean         Waters seeped through the land Out of the ocean a ship finds the river         And sails against her waters Its people build on her shores of mud         With rushes, wood, and stone And their towers tumbling back to the land         Are the last that the river washes Of the memories returned to ocean         Of its people seeped in the land

THE FAYRE QUEAN

Lilith the earth has drawn the waters to her And grown a tree that branches over the ocean And screens the sky from its jealous view Adam takes the proffered fruit And dwells with Lilith among the limbs And leaves of her mortal garden She is fair and he her king, but Eve Her clouded brow is drawing him apart To live again with her as ever He promises return but knows not which And Lilith dies, and he dies too, or lives With Eve our queen to return, to return