A Poem By Samuel Greenberg

The pale impromptu

I

Silver mourned gray. slepted the greenlight
             Pale neath coil of rock and clay
Stirred the tasted belt, such flower sighed tears
             Kept lewd powers away - by
Northern soprano
 The Easthern lute
   The forgotten pallete
     Strains ramBle
       Pellucid quest
        times chant
         Hearts brow
           Pale heat
            Fusive bleat
Thus of eye. lived low beyond colours earned retreat
But dared not sHow - a vampires rath Can you forget this wreap
Hidden winds perspired foul - as
 a palmed rose
   The well shade
     Urgent fears
      Eyes jealousy
        painted mirth
          royal flesh
           candle salve
             consumed moon
and here, the ash tray was Blown!

II

Blue turned white, gave the earth
            a coating balzomized sooth
Though naked light shealds the trail of love
            The fold metal granite doth move
In - Waves of skin
 Shapes of tale
  tinted staines
   Graceing clumps
     Slime pigments
      Lurid farrows
       Nulling marrow
         Shallows cloak
           Marble sponge
Therein I but tarry, as the yoke of Helium tinge
Unmatched, foriegn, alien to the shrine of beauties cringe
Leaness will but crave
 Water waves
   torque blocks
     Skulls of saints
       patience absent
         Yellow dreams
           Sensive Stirs
             Silent hills
              precious death
His wooB? hath yet nigh its breath

III

Clover sank to iron heat, stole the
              lillies of pale mat gold
The hearse in ghosts, where black
              jet black - driven in Frail -- By
Solitudes wish
 Phantoms orient
   Grey life
     Fouls deviation
       Spiritual songs
          pearls from tissue
            traits rejuvenation
              Stale plants
                dim accuracy
There sat the minstrel, bent in leagues of Frozen charm
Though lightly, fettered, as perfect calm Thawing melancholy
Into
   Early psalms
     river rhodes
       tale of lamps
         Satyres burial
           Paradise sHrine
             Noble realms
               Mirror's envil
                 Clover's muse
O soul! enlivened from dire perfume,

S.B.G. 1915