(Excerpt)
What would you do for me, Love? Would you weave a cloud,
A shroud, like Penelope wove, waiting for Ulysses,
Awaiting his return from exile overseas?
Would you thwart your suitors, grown bolder day by day,
Unravelling fabric of dreams to keep the hungry wolves at bay?
Would you, like Helen of Troy, risk the wrath of Menelaus,
A nation and hearts destroy, all for the love of Paris?
Or would you, struck by Cupid's heart-dart, descend from Olympus
As the huntress Artemis to follow your Adonis
Through hill and vale and forest? And when I lie down wounded
By the barbs of this harsh world, would you sprinkle your nectar
On my blood, before it's cold, to form a bright red flower,
A wind flower or anemone, to bloom and quick be blown away
Lest another hapless lover, beholding, be led astray, also falling prey
To lethal love for your beauty, oh Aphrodite?
Would you be my Selene, showering Endymion's
Eternal-sleeping, youthful body with kisses and caresses
In your moonlight, every night, without restraint
While I dream sweet dreams of love and sylphs and heaven?
Copyright ©2011 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.
