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The wonderful and very supportive dVerse Poets Pub  suggests as a poetics prompt today that one imitate an admired poet.  As host to the prompt, Victoria gives a great personalized version of the wonderful Wallace Stevens Thirteen Ways of Looking At A Blackbird.  I would love to try my hand at Wallace Stevens, but shortness of time  and several days into the long distance part of a long-distance relationship lead me instead to Christopher Marlowe, a poet  whom I  love and whose work I’ve already imitated.   This is based on the wonderful  “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”. (“Come live with me and be my love.”)

A Passionate Long-Distance Caller To Her Love

Come live with me, my sweet, my dear,
and we shall never echoes hear
of anxious longing, fearful cries,
of ‘why me?‘ woes or angry lies–
our ears won’t burn with cellphone’s ray,
our brains won’t morph their matters gray
into tumors fed by conversations
that only serve to try our patience.
Oh please come here; stay right by me
so I can see you when I see
the sky, the window, the chair, the bed.
the pillow there beside my head,
for you are all to me and more,
my sun, my moon, my ceiling, floor,
the one I talk to, the one
for whom I’d be still–sweet Hon,
I know my silence is not much known–
I can’t quite manage it on the phone–
but come here soon and stay forever
and we’ll lay quietly together.

(Apologies to those who’ve read this poem before; it is edited a bit!  I will try some Wallace Stevens soon.)