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You may have thought I no longer love you
Cause I left you, in the new moon of romance,
But how could I forget you when you never left me.
If I told you that those carefree mauby years
Were the best days of my life, would you believe me?
Would you accept me? Would you take me back?
It's not that I want to make up; did we ever break up?
I wore you, not like a pendant,
More like a wound upon my breast.
Vale, Wilson, Sangster, Glen, Governor, Gardens,
Lover of the green dreams and sleepy eyes,
Silent sacrifice to the carving knife of progress.
Like a gypsy, I knew you, loved you, lived you,
Caressed your every nook and cranny,
Ate your almonds, sucked your sea grapes.
Lover of the green dreams and the sleepy eyes,
I still hear, still feel, the love song of your heel, and toe,
Will forever hear and feel, your love, your song,
The healing of your tamb'rine and your fiddle bow.
© 2012 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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