Tom o’ the Forest . a poem by Alice B. Clagett

Written on 4 January 2018
This account is entirely fictional.

  • “Tom o’ the Forest,” a Poem by Alice B. Clagett, Soundtrack and Words, 4 January 2018

“Tom o’ the Forest”
A Poem by Alice B. Clagett
Soundtrack and Words
4 January 2018

 

Ah, Tom! Tom o’ the Forest!
Would that I had been there
with you, my own dear love,
as our child grew in strength
. . . and beauty

Would, if I could,
. . . have stopped the flow
. . . . . . of my life blood
. . . . . . . . . such loss
. . . . . . . . . such pallor
. . . . . . . . . . . . out onto the brown leaves
. . . . . . . . . . . . by the woodland pool
. . . . . . . . . . . . where we once bathed

Dearest my love
Such a long and weary while
. . . Stood I by your own side,
. . . . . . sighing

The blade that longing
. . . lent your throat
. . . . . . sliced mine
. . . . . . . . . as well

Tom of my life
Tom of my seried lives’ yearning
Blest be the day
when our twained paths
once more marry

……………

Alice B. Clagett


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