My eyes cannot see my face
and yet, in this room
this darkened place,
I see me in your love
your soft whisper breath
your fingertips across my skin.
You are my looking glass
image me into our dreams
light my heart, my soul,
light stars within my eyes
explode my senses,
nova me this night.
And then, as passions fade,
we shall sleep entwined
until the morrow’s dawn.
I’m hosting Poetics at dVerse today – that wonderful virtual pub for poets. I’m asking folks to write a poem that includes a unique verbification – a noun or adjective used as a verb. Think Google — originally a proper noun, the name of a company. People started to say “google that” and through repetition, it became a verb. How about “ganache me” — wouldn’t that be delectable? My post, One Night, verbifies nova – a star that suddenly flares and then fades slowly. Come join us at dVerse to read and enjoy; and maybe, also, to post your own verbification! Pub opens at 3 PM Boston time. Photo: in public domain.
Nova me…yes-great-wow-
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🙂 Glad you enjoyed!
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Love nova as a verb… The sense of that special other being your light is so strong, and nova is great. I find that more complex nouns make more interesting verbs…
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Glad you enjoyed….in a way, we were on the same wave length here….verbs to passion a poem! 🙂
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I think so too… i like to verbify nouns into metaphors…
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Love sensual poetry. I just love playing with verbs.
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Thank you, Victoria. Looking forward to your write!
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Image me and nova me! Wow! Verbification does add spice to a poem!
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Just like cinnamon red hots! 🙂
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“nova me this night”
LOVE.
There’s just something about the word “me” after a fantastic new verb that packs such a punch.
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Ah….you’re ganaching me now 🙂
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Several of our dVerse poets use verbification habitually–& it’s always impressive & fun. I think at that time–I need to do this in my poems–but then forget to do it. Thanks to you, now I feel good about it, and can add it to my writer’s tool; thanks.
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So glad you enjoyed and will look forward to seeing more verbification…I really enjoy using it! Still haven’t written my “ganache me” poem though 🙂
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Nova’d me speechless…wonderful.
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Thanks, Paul! 🙂
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“Nova me” would seem like an explosion of the senses.
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Exactly! 🙂
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Great word play in this piece.
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Thank you! Glad you enjoyed.
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Oh Lillian 😀 this is such a wonderfully dreamy write ❤️ especially love “light stars within my eyes
explode my senses, nova me this night.”
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Thank you, Sanaa!
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oh, you have verbed a sensuous night for us
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Ah, your comment makes me smile 🙂 Particularly appropriate as my glasses are steaming up when I tip my cup of hot coffee.
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Beautiful Lillian – especially like “Nova me”… very sensual… Thanks for taking good care of all us here at the pub… happy warm weather adventures!
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Thanks, Jay. Still raining this dark early Boston morning. Raincoat gear will be necessary to walk to the train station a bit later to visit my daughter. Will be ready for Bermuda’s lovely winter weather! 🙂
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Enjoy. I’m envious. It’s about 30 with fresh snow here in Colorado. Sunny, tho. Longing for the beach… aaaahhhh.
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Some very subtle, seductive verbifying. I love “image me”, and your use of “nova” as a verb. I’m glad I hadn’t read this before I wrote my poem…I think we used it differently…
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We did use “nova” quite differently 🙂 Glad you enjoyed. I’m still trying to write a poem that includes “ganache me!” Kind of like Osh Gosh B’Gosh Ganache Me! 🙂 Now I’m a little giddy with my caffeine this early morn 🙂
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A brave vibration, the wavelength of nova
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Glad you enjoyed 🙂
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This is beautiful:
“and yet, in this room
this darkened place,
I see me in your love”
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Thank you! 😊
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Oh this is so beautiful, Lillian and what a great idea for a prompt! I like the idea of seeing yourself in your significant other’s love. So much depth to that.
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It’s true, right? We see ourselves in the actions of our love for ourselves and in the love of our life’s partner. So glad you enjoyed this write and the poem too. 🙂
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nova me, love it! enjoy your holiday 🙂
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Yes…..Bermuda will ganache us! 🙂 Glad you enjoyed this write!
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We’ve been Super Nova-ed! Brilliant! Simply Brilliant!
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Thanks, Walt. You comment just made my day! 🙂
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Spectacular! 🌹🌹🌹
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My goodness….so glad to have you reading my posts. And happy you are enjoying them. 🙂
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Your daily posts are definitely a treat for me. (@–>–)
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Thank you!
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“light stars within my eyes
explode my senses,
nova me this night.”
Wow!
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Glad you wowed it 🙂
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