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Just one of last year's songs on lyrics by a poetess that I like very much.
A LOVER’S WISH
Were I to write my love
upon your skin
with silver nib
a gift of midnight blue,
to goddesses of love,
like a tatoo,
or carve the words in stone,
I would not win.
chorus
I cannot mark you mine:
the spinning threads,
their web speaks louder
than the seal of gold
that binds your life
for ever keeps your soul
tied to another as my sadness spreads.
And yet you are still mine,
to love and woo
and cosset if I could;
Perhaps I’ll send your words
on swallow’s wings,
or caws of crows.
chorus
I wish to leave behind
my love for you
in this rued world
that hundred years would spend
and not dissolve
the spell that your love now throws.
Comment
Hi Colin and thanks. I don't know the poetess personally, I only know her as legerdemer from a poetry forum where we both participate (but I gather she is French). This poem of hers was voted the best from last year in trhat forum!
Hi Soctrates
Very nice arrangement - who's the poet?
Colin
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