Poem: Rondo

Did I love thee? I only did desire

To hold thy body unto mine,

And smite it with strange fire

Of kisses burning as a wine,

And catch thy odorous hair, and twine

It through my fingers amorously.

Did I love thee?

Did I love thee? I only did desire

To drink the perfume of thy blood

In vision, and thy senses tire

Seeing them shift from ebb to flood

In consonant sweet interlude,

And if love such a thing not be,

I loved not thee.

George Moore

Feb 1852-Jan 1933

an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet,

art critic, memoirist and dramatist

…one of the poems I read at the Chuckanut Sandstone Writer’s Theater

monthly open mic, 2/12/2014, held at the Firehouse Cafe, in Fairhaven

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Published by Shannon Laws

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