That Deeper Calendar

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The songs of love live stronger than the songs

Of seasons.  Lancelots and Guineveres

Go singing through the souls.  Their love belongs

In every age, all throats of balladeers.

The seasons and the seas, the mountains, lakes

And climbing moons and setting suns, the fall,

The spring, the summer months, the wintry aches

Of loss attempt to hijack hearts and call

Our poetry to lurch away from love,

But jubilees of love win over realms

Of nature, triumph in our lines above

The seasons’ grandeur.  Loving overwhelms.

  Combine those lovers with the threat of death,

    That gives their loving timelessness’s breath.