it was Sam son
and not his daughter
whose hirsute head
wielded the power
until this Eve
her wily daughter
with kissing lips
the sweet deceiver
the Philistine
seductress little liar
with bee-stung lips
and honey tongue
the feline lion tamer
crept to the bed
of the snoring warrior
a pair of shears
and lethal secret with her
with hissing head
this daughter of Medusa
sapped Sam son strength
scissoring like a barber
Eve or Adam
Samson or Delilah
in head or bed
body or mind
which one is the weaker
man or woman
which one is the stronger
the one came first
or the one who followed after
one thing is sure
none can do without the other
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.
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