(Another) Poem in the Making OR Postscript to a Love Affair

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._N._Taber

Update (August 2016): A number of readers have asked if I plan to publish a separate collection of my love poems. Since no publishers have shown any interest, I guess the answer has to be ‘no’. However, most are on the blogs even if they have been excluded from collections for one reason or another.

I have also been asked to repeat the link to an interview I gave a postgraduate student of multimedia journalism: https://r224e31251.racontr.com/index.html

Meanwhile…

A friend once commented that all his greatest regrets had one thing in common...love. How many of us, I wonder, might well say the same?

(ANOTHER) POEM IN THE MAKING or POSTSCRIPT TO A LOVE AFFAIR

When you are lying very close to me

and my fingers are playing with your hair,

I could stay like this through eternity,

so full, this poet’s heart, of love and care

The warmth of your body inspiring me

to write sonnets on the walls of my heart,

my spirit rising to such ecstasy…

it can never contemplate we should part

Alas, part we must, and this spirit weep,

though these eyes stay dry or you may discern

how I dream of us, awake and asleep,

for some lessons some lovers never learn

Yet, missing you keeps you a part of me,

and our lives, though separate, poetry

Copyright R. N. Taber 2005; 2014

[An earlier version of this poem (slightly revised here) appears in 1st eds. of A Feeling For The Quickness Of Time by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2005; revised edition in e-format in preparation.]