James M. Bailey
Celebration of Life will be held April 22, potluck 1-3 p.m., at the Walker Mansion Bed & Breakfast, in Westwood. James was born April 5, 1933, and passed away on January 22, 2023.
The Mountain
Why Do I Wander After You?
You, Blue & Gray Mound Of Horizon
What Is In My Soul
To Drive Me So?
What Lust-After
Pursues Me?
You Of Nothing More,
Than Earth And Stone
You Beckon With Your Dumb-Standing
Forest Sentinals And Insanely
Racing Streams
(In Panic To Reach The Sea Again)
You Stand
And Look Upon My
Insignificance
And
Won’t Answer Me
I Will Trespass
I Will Corrupt Your
Sanctum
But,
Here Am I, Again,
Below Your Granite
Breast
You’ve Tricked Me
You’ve Come-Hithered
You’ve Opened To Me
Your Green Thighs
So Why Do I Waste Away
My Love On You?
You Too Are Unfaithful
You’ve Taken Other Lovers
I’ve Seen Their Marks
Upon Your Foot-Paths
Others Have Sighed In Your Embrace
But I’ll Come To You Again
As Always
My Mountain
My Mistress
My Mountain
My Mistress
You Gold-Plate The Leafs Of
Autumn
To Entice
My Surrender To Your
Whims
You Gown Yourself In
Blazing Winter White, So
Your Quiet Beauty
Will Entrap Me
The Rush Of Life You Give To
To Me In The Spring
Is My Undoing
You Have Seduced Me From My Kind
You’ve Made My Bed To Be
The Green Meadow
My Bath
The Coursing Stream
You Evoke My Lust
With Your
Sweet Scented Breath
You Blind My Reason
With Your Night-Collection
Of Stars
You Are Both Persuasion
And, Innocence.
By Jim Bailey 1933-2023