the spot that felt your warmth has now grown cold
long cold nights of longing and desire
seem longer as once more I long to hold
you in arms that burn to feel your fire
I toss and turn sleeping feelings unfold
a blanket of cloth that cannot cover
the spot that felt your warmth or my body
with love’s abundance gone there’s naught but want
which rich ransom would pay alas it’s free
though some would trade their kingdoms if need be
the night has needs but like my bed is gaunt
wet-eyed regret has found a heart to haunt
as wide awake I dream of you beside me
while the spot that felt your warmth remains to taunt
Copyright ©2001 by G. Newton V. Chance
- G. NEWTON V. CHANCE
- George Newton Vivian Chance (Trinidad and Tobago) -- member of the Poet Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com/ and the World Poets Society, http://world-poets.blogspot.com/ -- born in Tobago on 3rd March 1957. While residing at Rio Claro was inspired to write over a hundred poems at the turn of the Millennium. Hobbies include playing wind instruments, building computers, observing nature, reading and writing poetry. Believes that the power of a song is in its ability to evoke emotions by the marriage of lyric and music but that music without lyric can be just as powerful, that lyric without music can also be just as powerful, that there is music in the lyric and that lyric can be simple yet profound. Also, in this the age of computers, would like to model his lines after simple and efficient code and, analogous to Object Oriented Programming, achieve most of his imagery from nouns and verbs, avoiding the bloat and excess of unnecessary adjectives. This is what he aspires to attain in his poetry.
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