When Last my Love – David Punter

When Last my Love
for Thomas Wyatt


When last my love and I made love
with mild caress and none of desperation
we felt soft rain fall from above
obliterating all other expectation.
 
In cool of morning when the dew
lay gleaming in a sunlight new resolving
we felt the touch of something true
all cares of night and dream-commotion salving.
 
When thus in lovers’ arms we lay
with clouds above so rapidly dispersing
birdsong heralded the day
a sky with all of nature’s joys traversing.
 
But now my love has gone her way
and I must wrench and ramble to pursue her
through fields of mystery today
to a morrow where the sunlight pierces through her. 


David Punter