[Please click above to listen! Right-click and choose ‘Save as’ to download the Mp3]
Two lovers travelling
two lovers
meeting in the East
Their affair
was letters inked
and photographs
Now here embodied
will they know what to do?
She wakes him one morning, saying
‘let’s take a boat to an island
we’ll rise above the Bangkok smog’
Bike beneath them spluttering
her arms knitted around him
they race from bay to beach
chasing the burning sun
with hair wet and smiles wide
Their shoulders lapped by waves
she was beautiful
sitting on his knee
they felt married, waist deep
straw hats wilting in the brine
He thought ‘I could hold you here forever
I would kiss you
until the stars pepper the sky’
Between the music
from the bars off in the distance
and the love
dripping warmly from her words
a song composes itself over the ocean
Orion’s Belt above them
sand dancing between their toes
they rest upon the rocks
and she knows that she could love him
he wishes this night would never end
it’s one chance in their lifetimes
between a blue night and dawn
In a stilted shack on sand
her black hair spreads
like ink across the bed
longing dialling up their eyes
as the air between them boils
bodies’ voices blending
Two lovers travelling
two lovers don’t know if they’ll meet again
this could so easily have been
the love of their lifetimes
This could so easily have been
yet it existed only
between a blue night and dawn…
[2019]
Thanks for reading.
Reposted from February, now with an audio reading set to the track Green Arrow by Yo La Tengo.
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Fiery little love affairs. A nice, romantic piece.
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Thanks 🙂 I’m glad you enjoyed
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That track was AMAZING! So beautifully done. Do you plan on uploading it to SoundCloud?
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Aww thanks for listening Kim. I was really pleased with how it came out. I only discovered that song last week and I immediately wanted to try putting this poem with it. Unfortunately, I can’t upload it to Soundcloud because of copyright (and I have tried). So, it will have to be blog-only. Thanks again. x
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Thanks for the tip about how to save the mp3. Never knew that before.
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It’s very handy that one 🙂
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This is my favourite thing I’ve ever made. The closest to what got me started in the first place. Thank you Yo La Tengo for for the incredible music.
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A masterpiece Tom. I can fully understand how it is your favourite. Really exquisite!
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Aww thanks Peter, I wish I had the time and resources to make more poems set to music. Creating this one brought me a lot of satisfaction that I’ve not had before or since (in a creative capacity). Thanks for listening.
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This poem is mesmerising.
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Thank you Cassa! I’m so pleased you thought so. I really wanted it to be hazy and dreamlike; like the setting it describes. Thanks for listening/reading.
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Plus the words you chose to use just hit the right emotions and imagination.
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