the ghost dancers Quotes

“beneath the stars that drift; she sighed and said
"Every tale of a love
can only be a tale of ghosts that linger
in these spaces we
can never hold,"—as the wind
gave echo”
― John Daniel Thieme, the ghost dancers

“that I thought of you—of the air that slipped
between the strands of your hair, and blue stones
in my hand, before the autumn damasks

bloom their last, before these blue stones are lain
forgotten as the blossoms of plum trees
I could not render in my artless hands”
― John Daniel Thieme, the ghost dancers

“those whom love has held, has held here in time
curious, in this labyrinth of roses—it
will go on holding, though in cruelty—of
stars we could not reach for, but still remembered.”
― John Daniel Thieme, the ghost dancers

“a few words spoken beneath the moon, love
may be, but I write your name
in the celestial dust that lingers
in the air, above
the veilchenblau roses, callow
and pale”
― John Daniel Thieme, the ghost dancers