The Duet of Poetry
What do poets do when they have time on their hands?
What do poets do when they have time on their hands?
Well one of the things we do is Duet!
It is quite fun actually to see what can come on the spot from two poets with different styles.
Many of us duet on Twitter. Each communication becomes a stanza.
This duet with my friend Sean Vessey reminds me of a knight and his lady fair. This poem was impromptu ; there was no plan. I would encourage you to try it. I hope you enjoy the end result. The lady is speaking in the italicized letters in a light contral
to voice and the knight is speaking in his bold and deep baritone voice.
to voice and the knight is speaking in his bold and deep baritone voice.
Fair one why do you not speak?
Your flowers have lost their fragrance
My heart is weak
Oh passionate love moon,
I have missed your heart's blessings,
To enjoy night fantastic
memories loom
I hear your poetic words
a moonlit dance a dream of two
by her golden glow
I begin to swoon
My voice fair one is yours
for whispers and delights
as lover’s dance
in Moon's starlights
he hears her whispers
soft into the misty night
“kiss me my darling
in your dreams hold me tight “
the misty night
is where we play
under star lit moon
until dawning day
my love please don't sleep
look in my eyes
be captive to love
as time goes by
look into your eyes my lady fair
I bend for your desires
my love is true
my will to resist you
I cannot do
your heart I hold in the palm of my hand
I hold it near me
never relinquished
never free
my heart races to your fair hand
I am yours ~ as a man
bound to your heart
for as long as time stands
I must admit
a spell is cast
to love with you
a lover’s slow dance
the spell is yours
I'm captive it's true
held by passionate sparkling eyes
jewel like eyes of blue
a heart that is bound
faithful and true
magnificent in every way
is what I've found in you
your gentle grasp
hope, faith, and love
I cannot break
I am yours ~ for all time
Not captive O dear sir
With the moon as witness
be held tight
of her love be sure
to be held by one so fair and true
where all dreams ends
for me
for you
my dreams would never die
were I in your arms
my heart would be alive
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image courtesy creative commons flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/telemax/2732444627/
20 comments:
Thanks again Sean for writing our duet up. Hope others are encouraged to do the same
Thank you, Leslie, for your writing, and beautiful pictures.
Hmm..lovely duet, good morning reading guys. Thanks for brightening my day!
Thank you for your composition.
Your duet was wonderful.
It is great to have inspiration and a connection with other Kindred spirits.
I was fortunate to see your magnificent duet unfolding in the twitter stream. I am SO happy that it won't be lost now that it's been posted here. You both were on fire and your words magical. I loved it then and love it more now. Thank you for posting. ♥♥♥
smiles. this is beautiful moon and speaks to my romantic heart...
ah moonie this is beautiful - so much romance in this...deeeeep sigh..
Impromptu micro-poetry & duets are so much fun to read on twitter. That's one of the coolest aspects of the platform. Great work, Leslie & Sean. Thanks for sharing your wonderful duet here too.
sean & leslie this was ROMANCE...ra lovely read all the way through..and on a wet day like today such warming words...maybe there is a romantic in me but i so thought this could be used as vows being exchanged by the bride & groom...wonderful...i am all a glow.....ok snapped out of it..dont panic!! cheers pete
its beautiful. I've read a duet for the first time since i started blogging! wonderful.
I really enjoyed this, Leslie.
We do duets and more during our TweetSpeakPoetry jams. Perhaps you can join at when the next one's announced. They are fun and the results can be so good.
Aw, you two made magic! Well done. ♥
fun! enjoyed this very much!
thank you
Very beautiful. As I was reading, I thought..this takes flirting to a new and different level. Well done.
Gay @beachanny
How fun! I love it when the creativity in one sparks a flow in another--like dancing. A beautiful duet!
What a wonderfully romantic duet. Took me back...to a past life, probably. I love the spontaneity of it, too. My husband and I have done these in couplets. It's lots of fun!
Beautiful duet
Oh wow. I was truly captivated by this beautiful poem that Sean and Leslie did. I am hoping that we will see many more in the future. Work sometimes disappoints me as I miss out on stuff. Maybe when I am a little better at poetry ill try it myself.
Lovely duet - it is great fun to write with others. I love the theatricality of this piece - it reads almost like a Restoration comedy. Congratulations to you both on a fine piece of writing
MissyPoem and I performed a poem on December 30. We wrote it as an improvisation exchanging lines through tweets using a hashtag #mmpoem. We chose to improvise it on the public timeline quite deliberately after deliberating because we felt our friends would enjoy seeing the poem emerge through our exchanges. We had no set shape or direction – just two themes – dancing and love. The writing became a dance between us and the poem was performance art.
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