Orange Passion
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem
Not often mango sunset clouds and sky
Cause burnishing of Scottish lochs that shine
In orange of special garnets. Northern Skye
Is foreign to exotic orange as Jain
Moustaches are to Monsignors and popes
And yet extraordinary lights occur
In Highland evenings. Up from bracken slopes
Of Scotland autumn sunset heights occur
Of alien loves in colors Robert Burns
Did not imagine when he rhymed with love.
The color’s bright exoticisim yearns
For mixtures (French, American) above.
There is no love that ever free of clouds
Exists. Love always shies from amber shrouds.