Excerpt from "Station Master" by Carl Schuler (Amazon books)

Alabaster-pale Full Moon Refrain!

 

Alabaster-pale full moon bright

Creating shadows grey and white

Blends surreal sweetness in delight

 

Image in old looking glass reflects time-traveled horizon-trace afar

Yet! Amazing site to  tired eyes, more beautiful than ever, still thou are

 

Instants, days, on into years, in lightning flash it’s all just soon been

To count the dead, to fear the next, to miss the now, commits dire sin

 

Once infant crawled, unsteady walked, ran like a fresh, sailed fair wind

Too quickly surf kissed sandy beach, found passing time not be dear friend

 

Alabaster-pale full moon bright    

Creating shadows grey and white

Blends surreal sweetness in delight

 

Fulfill dear nature-mother’s way---Always! Thy kingdom come!

Blatant-subtle instant-eon, each day-long most treasured awesome

 

Alabaster-pale full moon bright

Creating shadows grey and white

Blends surreal sweetness in delight

 

Spring Beauty-virgin Sweetness-maiden caresses dawn softly the east

Adonis-handsome tender embrace locked-hearts in lasting loving-feast

 

Southern statue subtle slowly slips on sojourn wind, nearly a silent whisper

Spawned summer storms begot of futile search for just one tempting mister

 

 

Placid western monument imperceptibly has paid pained-dues

Lake color bright kaleidoscope reflects Autumnal splendor hues

 

Sculpted marble icy-cold purviews spouse handiwork now frozen frigid

Daguerreotype slight shadowed black on white hints softly contrast rigid

 

Alabaster-pale full moon bright

Creating shadows grey and white

Blends surreal sweetness in delight

 

All transfixed quietness even in exploded temper ’ere nature goes

Each combination different, yet still same, in gentle ebb and flow

 

Offered there true love gone holding hands in heaven’s garden upon His earth

Live statues bathed in alabaster-white refrain to value-virtue sweet pure worth

 

Alabaster-pale full moon bright

Creating shadows grey and white

Blends surreal sweetness in delight

 

Lazy “∞” upon yon dream-bed to symbolize that one forever infinity

Body life? A soul. Its own? Spirit true. Replete, to emulate divinity

 

Alabaster-pale full moon light confesses not an illuminated single solitary faux sorrow

Faith! Family! Freedom! Trinity---hope born new dawn upon the promised ’morrow

 

Alabaster-pale full moon bright

Creating shadows grey and white

Blends surreal sweetness in delight

Shadowed Graces wraithlike-night

Passionate reality, purchase-tight

Upon soft wind sacred Deity sight

Touch yonder sky to mountain height

“V”-wedge geese in migrant flight

A sin? To miss…true life! It might!

 

Amen!