And talk all night of rhyme
by cricketjeff on March 9, 2008. © Jeff Green, All rights reserved
I want to sit and sip a drink
And talk of poetry.
To lie back with a friend and think
Beneath a garden tree.
I want to walk beside the sea
And gaze out at the sky.
While holding hands, just you and me,
We’d dream that we could fly.
I want to sit beside a fire
And talk all night of rhyme.
To feel slow building of desire
In some eternal time.
I want to learn to love again,
With one who wants to share.
To sing a tender love refrain
While we have time to spare.
I have not had enough of life.
I want to try once more
With a new lover friend or wife
To make me as before.
I want to drink some heady wine
And toast a poets health
With one who values words so fine
Preferring them to wealth.
While all these things I want to do,
Are written in my dreams,
Behind each one of them, is you,
The object of my schemes.
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