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Welcome to OpenLinkNight folks! This is your opportunity to link 1 poem of your choice as this is no prompt-day. For those who missed the Mr Linky deadline the past week or this Tuesday’s poetics about “Seeking Some Shade“, this is also your opportunity to share your poem.   I also want to remind you that our Haibun Monday is still open the whole week.

Let me share with you a poem about Lake Louise which our family visited in the past month.

Lake Louise

by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

I think that when the Master Jeweler tells
His beads of beauty over, seeking there
One gem to name as most supremely fair,
To you He turns, O lake of hidden wells!

So very lovely are you, Lake Louise,
The stars which crown your lifted peaks at even
Mistake you for a little sea in heaven
And nightly launch their shining argosies.

From shore to dim-lit shore a ripple slips,
The happy sigh of faintly stirring night
Where safe she sleeps upon this virgin height
Captive of dream and smiling with white lips.

Surely a spell, creation-old, was made
For you, O lake of silences, that all
Earth’s fretting voices here should muted fall,
As if a finger on their lips were laid!

 

 Lake Louise, Banff National Park
Alberta, Canada

 

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See you at the poetry trail. ~Grace~