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The world's greatest poets each made endeavor
To capture love and beauty forever
Homer to Virgil to Shakespeare . . . beyond
Each has employed his inked magic wand
To pen phrases of honeyed description
Upon the object of his happy affliction
Helen and Grace Kelly and Princess Di
A sunset painted on a summer sky
Diamonds and emeralds and rubies
Among earth's most beloved beauties
And each has had their place in verse
By poets whose path I unworthily traverse
Samson and Delilah, Romeo and Juliet
And other famous lovers we all have met
Even nature provided the life-mating dove
As manifestation of endless love
And these loves also are well recorded
With verse which poets renowned awarded
And while I am not so bold as to claim
Equal footing with these men of fame
For my verse to theirs is as burlap to linen
It covers warmly . . . but abrases the skin
But Colleridge and Tennyson and Keats had not
What I have been given but could never have bought
For they wrote of mere beauty my darling dear
While I . . . I write of you - beauty without peer
And though they spoke glowingly of lovers true
They spoke of nothing . . . compared to me and you
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