The Autumnal Princess... Poem by Mark Heathcote

One step further to the winter
Two steps further to the spring
The autumnal princess danced
On the silvery feathered wind

Like a lotus flower of pearl
She covert's-the-sleepy world
And soothes the mirrored stars
In reflective blue stone hearts

By piecing snowdrops of pearl
The oracle amethyst of her eye
Divides a world of brittle pleasure
An autumnal garden of treasure;

That within her lips of autumn's gold
-is wrought to rest the woodland fold
And on her pallid breast that humbles not
Shall be tarried a harvest moon forgot.