I love you with the fatal
fascination of the night-moth
to the flicker of the flame.
I love you like the heron
loves the fresh-mown, harrowed ground
with uprooted insects flitting,
in abundance, all around.
Like the cud of cattle loves
to chew the tender shoots and blades
of fresh grass sprouting underneath
the samaan tree's cool midday-shade.
I love you like the teak seed
craves the dark, moist, loamy clay;
with cotyledon stretching,
upward to the light of day.
My love, how can I say it.
I love you like the rain-fly,
when the rain and lightning calls,
madly wings and mates; to die.
I love you as the shadow
is lost without the body.
With an ardent love, I love you;
I love you, with all my life.
Copyright ©2010 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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