(for my wife, Dr. Judy Rocke, who exchanged vows with me on 12/12/2004 and 26/12/2004 and for the survivors of the tsunami of 26/12/2004)
once a man
one New Years Day met
what he thought
was a woman
born
to be his soul mate
it was as if they had met
and known
each other somewhere before
it was so easy to tell
her all his secrets
she told him all her secrets
except her name
that man and woman
declared a vow
that within one year
they would exchange vows
which they kept
on the twelfth of the twelfth
and the twenty sixth of the twelfth
two thousand and four
who can forget
the tsunami that brought
such destruction and death
yet could not silence
love and life and hope and faith
or the memory
that Christ can
calm the raging sea
and so she renewed his faith
that a story can
really end
as a fairy tale
romance
and live happily ever after
trudging along a long and dusty desert trail
famished and parched almost to death
to find
his oasis
his nurse
full of love and life and peace
his Florence
not quite a nightingale
but more than a woman
almost an angel
Copyright © 2009 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.
