Silly Love Songs

[TranquillityBase]

At the dogpark today
a lithe tanned demimonde
with a diamond in her nose
looked at me,
as you first looked at me, 
the challenge to come hither.
Now you’re a school teacher in Queens,
then, a princess who appeared after dark,
to carry me off to adventures in heartbreak.

Not so much a vision, but not excluded
by the countdown:

Liebe dauert oder dauert nicht,
an dem oder jedem Ort.

But I am marooned by old age
and this poem is my musket 
with powder and ball for a single shot 
and a choice.

An earthly goddess chose me,
dare I choose the shot?
Much better to wait for a goddess
than to interrupt a countdown.

This is actually a repost of a section of a long poem I wrote and posted about 3 years ago.  The long poem is frankly tedious, but at the time it was my Great Project.  Anyway, I've been in a dry spell, this section was far into the poem, so I suspect few read it, and I felt like it deserved a reprise.

http://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-23403.html