A Poet's Blog: Roger N.Taber shares his thoughts & poems...

Thoughts and observations by English poet Roger N. Taber, a retired librarian and poet-novelist.- "Ethnicity, Religion, Gender, Sexuality ... these are but parts of a whole. It is the whole that counts." RNT [NB While I have no wish to create a social network, I will always reply to critical emails about my poetry. Contact: rogertab@aol.com].

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Sadly, a bad fall in 2012 has left me with a mobility problem, and being diagnosed with prostate cancer the same year hasn't helped, but I get out and about with my trusty walking stick as much as I can, take each day as it comes and try to keep looking on the bright(er) side of life. Many of my poems reflect the need to nurture a positive-thinking mindset whatever life throws at us.

Saturday, 7 March 2020

Another Country


Now, love doesn’t care whether about our ethnicity, religion (or non-religion),gender  or sexuality so why should anyone?

This little poem is for lovers across the world who find themselves caught up in a tangle of outdated, misguided stereotypes wielding this or that socio-cultural-religious sledgehammer doing its best to grind them to dust…underestimating the sheer staying power of love, though its followers be driven apart, or worse ...

ANOTHER COUNTRY

You’ll come naked to my dreams
and breathe life into me,
repair my body at its fraying seams,
fill me with ecstasy

You’ll croon a love song in my ear,
play on the same guitar
I bought you for Christmas the year
we first kissed each other

You’ll make love to me, our passion
a bitter-sweet hymn to Creation,
though I must wake too soon, too soon,
at time’s cruel persuasion

Parted by forces fired by human bigotry,
reunited forever in love's 'other' country


Copyright R. N. Taber 1982; 2020


[Note: This poem was written in 1982 when I was recovering from a severe nervous breakdown. I rediscovered and slightly revised it in 2010; rev. title, 2020.]

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