Showing posts with label Fragmented Poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fragmented Poetry. Show all posts

Friday, June 14, 2024

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.