Canaan's Love ( Canada on speed)

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Open Poetry #37

Canaan's Love ( Canada on speed)

poettothecars
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since 2006-02-10

Posts 1093
New Zealand

0 posted 2006-03-30 02:01 AM

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Canaan’s Love
30 March 2006

If I could see you in my eyes
would I love you for who you are
If you could rest your head on my heart
could you love me for who I am
Your eyes - that compassion of your grin
did I tell you - you have my mother’s chin

Words I am unable to describe
that word I can never find
The grammar of an illusion
the cuteness of a smile
Should I love you
if only for a little while

A night of passion in amour
a kiss upon more than your cheek
Each succulent breast
a man of honour
To know you
were the best

This debonair child
a Sarah to my Abraham
Would I love you - if all was told
To be there in Canaan
to love you - until we were old

Canaan is an ancient term for a region corresponding to present-day Israel/Palestine including
the West Bank, western Jordan, southern and coastal Syria and Lebanon continuing to the
border of modern Turkey. Yet Canaan was a metaphor, a word with another meaning, to
such places in describing a culture and a world divided - where this dispersal of Israelites,
descendents of, the Biblical figure, Jacob, was a unification in gathering of a community
scattered the whole world over. The 12 tribes of Israel (son’s of Jacob, or Israel as he was
also named).

a poet who cares

Or was Canaan, Canada on speed.

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

1 posted 2006-03-30 03:45 AM

wow...learn something new every day

thanks for sharing

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

2 posted 2006-03-30 04:39 AM

Quite a deep poem and i'm saving it for a later study. Thanks for sharing....jo

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