Snow-Kissed Apple

Snow-Kissed Apple
© Surazeus
2026 06 06

Snow-kissed apple on the arching bough, 
teach me how hope inspires the heart to love, 
though disease and death haunt our lonely town 
and twist angelic bodies with harsh pain, 
so sweet juice of your truth, from sun and rain, 
may fill my wounded mind with energy. 

Strange glow of sunlight through web of tree limbs 
exposes eerie ache of wordless hope 
for faces that smile bright with cheerful mien 
on summer afternoons by sparkling stream 
where we play games among the market stalls 
while men in ring of stones discuss great things. 

Heart latched on swift angelic flight of dreams, 
I search for secret name carved on gray cliff 
which indicates what nameless soul I sense 
awake in tangled shadows of lost time 
so I may channel wisdom they perform 
with courage to challenge despair and win. 

Dazed by hard sunlight of relentless faith, 
I shelter under Arcus Gaviorum 
built by mind and hands of Vitruvius, 
and listen to the dainty sparrow chirp 
sharp thoughts of passion to rejuvenate 
spirit of Janus in full flush of spring. 

Snow-kissed apple beneath the great blue sky, 
revive my wounded heart with honesty 
that nothing matters in this frantic world 
but fellow travelers on road of life 
who spring with me from turbid lake valley 
where bones of our ancestors grow as trees. 

Thin wail of sharp mercurial regret 
sparks in my wounded heart strange memory 
when we assemble in tall ring of stones 
to sing in tribal choir of loyal faith 
with one communal voice of eager hope 
that we this hour glow bright with light of stars. 

With pulsing wolf-heart of hysteric rage 
I race through tangled forest of contempt 
to rescue from aggressive chains of greed 
my clan enslaved by gang of haughty thieves 
who mock me when I hurl courageous spear 
and leave me crippled on the raven hill. 

Snow-kissed apple hanging from the moon 
so high and far from trembling hand of thirst 
till sudden flutter of dark sparrow wings 
shakes fruit of heaven loose so it falls straight, 
fill me with light of stars and wind of hope 
so I may free my clan from slavery.