On Verlaine, Mon Reve Familier

written in response, inspiration of Verlaine's grand poem

Never quite monogamous but 

Committed to the concept

Of a lover then now and then

Nights swirl a recurring wake 

Strange fruit illusion of an unknown 

Woman then now and then 

Sometimes dark sometimes fair 

Never quite so sweet as sweet as 

Her name implied. Fidelity 

Then and now then Patience 

Charity Hope -- never quite the same 

Nor quite the other -- similar 

Of a kind but not so as to confuse 

Senses of senses of which seasons 

Cool,  calm, ignite blood over reason. 

Ken e Bujold

Reviews

[Neville]

I think this is great .. but then I have read my copy of the Harrad experiment so many times the pages have been worn so thin you dont have to turn the pages to read the following chapter .. I give ya full marks you old dog .. Neville :)

[Ken Simm.]

An interesting and marvellosly put concept. Interesting you've only had male reviews so far. All three of them. I think I would be scared bringing this up.
But To fear does us part. Great sardonic writing.

[Ken e Bujold]

while i had not considered sex of reviewers, it does raise an interesting point. also amuses me in some small way that it appears the title may have escaped consideration. translation My recurring dream. Verlaine was a dog. his poem is a great one, though my reading of it is not that he is writing of one particular woman as much as a collage of what he desired. read the poem so many times over the yrs, and on the latest the riff of what he was getting at sort of formed in my head

[Coyote Poetry]

I have a scary wife. She told me. Divorce, someone must die Ken.
"Sometimes dark sometimes fair
Never quite so sweet as sweet as
Her name implied. Fidelity"
I did like the above lines. Better safe than sorry my friend and thank you for sharing the amazing poetry.
Coyote

[John the Baptist]

A splendid concept, but I wonder how many wives would approve of partial monogamy. My experience is they don't have a sense of humor concerning such things.

[Ken e Bujold]

Verlaine's certainly didnt. This poem is a riff on one of my favs from him. Not autobiographical, if it was, i'd of been ballless a long long time ago :)

[W. Barrett Munn]

the repeated then and now really propels the reader. Well done.

Winston

[Ken e Bujold]

thanks. i think so too. this little bugger, kept me up for a week before it finally all slotted into place. The poem by Verlaine, My Recurring Dream is one of my favs. read it so many times through the years, but only on my latest reading did the thought of an answer to it occur. C'est la vie as we say