Timeless I
Great friendship leads to kindling of a kind
Unknown to lovers who have never spent
Nights they devoted purely to content
Intimate intercourse strictly of mind—
Love is expansion, at its best, of souls’
Learned connectivity in friendship first,
And then the cultivating of the thirst,
Pursuing stronger wine, and then the coals—
Embers long banked as friendship had begun—
Light into fire new brilliance from a spark
Lifting great stars from the eternal dark,
Exquisite as a newly blazing sun—
Rich is the love that from such friendship springs,
Kisses of wine—and of more stellar things.
Timeless II
In morning light, the palest leafy shade
Of birches’ green is cast upon the wall
Where portraits hang, ancestral friends who all
Keep silent watch on what the years have made
Of their descendants and their memories;
The secretary, small and staunch, remains,
And in its graceful curving shape contains
What documents can speak these histories;
Oft, in this room, the whisper of that sense
Of timeless care embracing present love
Reaches so gently from its great remove
That love fills up the room itself, immense.
When I am here, I know love so begun
Will flourish to the final setting sun.
Art-Colored Glasses 
Very nice painting. http://www.davidgeorgetaylor.com
Isn’t it lovely! It’s a work by the late Prince Eugen of Sweden, hanging in his summer place in Stockholm, which is nowadays one of the most delightful small art museums I know anywhere. A marvelous, airy, light-filled and elegant preserved royal home where they exhibit permanent collection pieces by the prince and his circle of artist comrades, and some of the chambers are dedicated to small but fantastic exhibitions of other (often contemporary) artworks. Oh, and there’s a wonderful cafe there, too! http://www.waldemarsudde.se
Such a beautiful post….thank you so much. Janet:)xxx
It’s a tribute to people *and* places I love. I’m glad it spoke to you, my dear Janet!
xo
Kathryn, Beautiful pics!
have a nice sunday!
hugs
I imagine you know exactly where these were taken, too! 😀 Sunday was as sunny here as the days in those photos—amazingly springlike for February, which was nice since we attended a wedding in the morning and a recital in the evening and had a lot of driving between the two. 😉
Kram!
kram! 🙂
Beautiful writing, K, and lovely photos, too! Have a blessed Sunday, my friend…♥
Thank you, my sweet. Sunday was marvelous (see my note to Anna of inte fan gör det det), and the photos and poems remind me of other blessed times, places, and loves!
xoxo!
Lovely.
Thanks. The acrostic poem is dedicated to a very dear friend whose love has made us Family over the years and who now, nearing her very youthful 80th year, has found a new true-love in a longtime friend of hers as well. Such a joy! (And the last photo is the view from her Stockholm apartment that she makes *our* home when we get over there.)