My First Love

our greatest love brings the greatest joy

First Love                                                                                                        

If e’er the censors from afar

                        reign down to quell my love,

That was my first love

                        which love was truest,

Echoed in my soul

deep through it,

Reluctant feet dragged o’er its brink,

At first to fall yet then to leap,

Survive and grow down all times ages,

Be writ in thousands scrolls and pages,

Inspire devotions, odes and rages,

Yet still to puzzle ponderous sages,

But ne’er to understand,

                        her intimate demands,           

                                    or absolute command…

 

Her sweet caress that stirs my heart to rapture,

Her bold embrace ignites to flame my soul,

Her sentiment to pacify me after,

Her passionate fire again doth make me whole.

 

She’s held me close since dawn of man,

                        and tread the path beside me,

Through hate, through pain and bitter loss

                        she’d succor and revive me,

And when the joy burst from my breast

                        she danced on air so lightly,

My secret dreams, my hopes and fears

                        play ‘cross her face so rightly.

 

Who can this myst’rous maiden be

that holds all men fast in her sway,

Who favors none yet conquers all

still pleases in most every way?

 

Both muse and bart possess her heart

                        her smile within their craft doth play,

Thine ear, thine voice are oft her choice

                        to hear her song and sing her praise,

Behold- ‘tis true! You’ve loved her too

                        for MUSA is my first love’s name…

Now listen closely…d’you hear her play?

 

by Rikkevi Rue copyright 2011

Reviews

[ice]

MUSA is my first love’s name…
Now listen closely…d’you hear her play?

Yes, I do...It was her that sang this song to me as my eyes went down the stanzas and lines...

A lyrical poem, could be put to music, without much trouble..

nice work
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[ice]

What the F..only three reviews on a poem of this intensity...sometimes I just don't understand the world.....sheesh!

[NoneOfYourBusiness akaK..]

rapt and mesmerized by the emotional cadence~ there is a pattern to the rhythm that speaks to the deep within creative soul withn each of us~

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another outstanding write..you are masterful with rhyme, its so delightful to read, I never falter when reading, this just flows to perfection..