The Waltz

Laura hosts Meeting the Bar in the Poets Pub ~ our challenge, to create a 'fragment poem'. I used the last three lines from the last stanza of Leonard Cohen's "Take This Waltz" song ~ which was influenced by Federico Garcia Lorca's "Little Viennese Waltz Poem." The lines I chose are italicized in red.

a gift from the universe ~

this moment carved from eternity

our bodies a language

spoken without words

O my love, O my love

each turn, each pivot

sweet fire burns within.

we are infinite, we are free

we are music, we are dance

lost in a cadence of our creation

take this waltz, take this waltz

every heartbeat a promise

every touch our solemn vow

it's yours now, it's all that there is.