Although
some 600+ of my poems have appeared in various poetry publications since 1993
(excluding any that have only appeared in my collections) very few of these
have been on a gay theme. Today’s poem is one of the few; it first appeared in Poetic Designs, Poetry Now
(Forward Press) 2004 and in final volume of my Love and Human Remains quartet the following year.
I suspect
most if not all of us keep at least a few regrets close to the heart...
TIME, TRICKSTER
We walked
by the sea
my true
love and I…
dreaming,
longing to be
as free as doves in
the sky
above us
above us
It had
been a lovely day,
but
twilight had fallen,
certain to
take you away,
no help for it, odds stacked
against us
against us
Though
years fly past
like
those doves,
ours remains the dream
I keep closest, and watching
over us
over us
Never a good time then
for two gay men...
Copyright R. N. Taber 2005; 2013
Copyright R. N. Taber 2005; 2013
[Note: An earlier version of this poem appears under the title 'Too Soon, Too Late' in A Feeling for the Quickness of
Time by R. N. Taber,
Assembly Books, 2005.]
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