I just watched Becoming Jane and I loved the movie. This scene was so sensually beautiful and these words just popped into my head.
These fleeting intimate moments
Step, step, turn, step
Our fingertips touch; a flood of joy
Curtsies and bows and secret smiles
Delighting in the way you move
Constraints forgotten and give way
To a crisp unencumbered passion
This sweet ache I gladly bear
For this night, this music
Under these stars
And the light touch of your lips
For this brief hour shall sustain me
And in the morning I shall mourn
For this beauty that is scarred
By propriety and society
Knowing that I have loved more
In these few winks of time
Than many have loved in a lifetime
Step, step, turn, step
Our fingertips touch; a flood of joy
Curtsies and bows and secret smiles
Delighting in the way you move
Constraints forgotten and give way
To a crisp unencumbered passion
This sweet ache I gladly bear
For this night, this music
Under these stars
And the light touch of your lips
For this brief hour shall sustain me
And in the morning I shall mourn
For this beauty that is scarred
By propriety and society
Knowing that I have loved more
In these few winks of time
Than many have loved in a lifetime
"The good do not always come to good ends"
3 comments:
"...knowing that I have loved more in these few winks of time than many have loved in a lifetime." What a line!
This poem exactly captures the sense of the dance in Austin's time. "This sweet ache" is perfect.
I hate to copy June's comment, but I thought the same exact thing as I read your beautiful poetry!
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