Sing me a love-song
[Under development: 1 June 2005 ]
I grew up with the verse of A.A. Milne, the creator of Christopher Robin and his beloved bear, Winnie-the-Pooh. Milne's influence on me has been great, and I have read out loud many Milne texts, as part of wedding speeches, as illustrative material in sermons, and as a vehicle for teaching MA students about qualitative research methods.
As I recall, much of Milne's verse was tinged with melancholy, though not mawkishly. I wrote this poem some time in the 1980s.
Sing me a love-song
Of sunrise and flowers;
A song of lark meadows
And gentletouch hours.
I'll write you a poem
Of skerry-littered seas;
A poem of mist
In the Sound of Unease.
Tell me a story
Of vineyards and wine;
A story of sharing
The greenness of time.
I'll write you a poem
Of spindrift and sand;
A poem of oceans
You touched in my hand.
