Winter Fantasie

One clear winter night
In soft moonlight
Out on a frozen pond
Of which I was fond
On skates just you and I
Beneath the night sky
In each other’s arms
We danced with grace and charm
Twirling hearts entwined
We moved as one combined
Letting our love unwind

Flowing with our song
We waltzed along
Like two leaves in the breeze
We glided with ease
Swirling as we flew
Just as leaves do
Etching in the ice
Spirals so nice
Lavish as could be
We let our love flow free
For the stars to see

Drifting in the clear
I drew you near
As close as we could get
Until our lips met
In a passionate kiss
Our world filled with bliss
Lost in love’s flare
Together we shared
One another’s air

Caught under your spell
My eyelids they fell
There the dream dispelled
And in darkness I was left to dwell

It was just a dream
But so real it seemed
So real it seemed
Sigh

01.16.92 – 02.15.94

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This poem can be sung to the 18th Variation of the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43, by Russian composer, Sergei Rachmaninov (1873–1943).

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Copyright by Minh Tan on listed dated of completion
and published in Perspectives, ISBN 0-9686250-0-2.

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Notes to this poem…

I Want You

I want you… only you
I want you… my true love
You’re all I dream of
I want you… oh yes you
Because only you’ll do

Oh, I want you… day and night
To keep my world bright
For the joy in your smile & the splendour in your eyes
Can cure any demise

For instance…
At the end of the day
When the sun has gone away
Or perhaps on a day
When the clouds have come to stay
And I’m just feeling down
Living life behind a frown
Only you can come ’round
And turn that frown right upside down

That’s why…
I want you… at my side
For all of life’s ride
I want you… yes I do
Because I love you true

Oh I want you… in my mind
To leave doubts behind
For the thoughts of you & the elation that they bring
Just makes me want to sing…

‘Every time my eyes gaze forth up into the night skies
I see your face in a constellation of mine
And I tell myself that therein my future lies
If it could be seen among the stars that shine’

I want you…
It’s so clear
No one else comes near
I want you… oh I do
So what else is there new?

Oh I want you… in my heart
To make my woes part
For the sound of your voice & the stroke of your touch
They do my soul so much

For instance…

When all seems to go wrong
When each second seems so long
Or perhaps when life’s song
Includes notes that don’t belong
And I’m in much unrest
Lost within despair’s tempest
I think of you to form
The bright rainbow after the storm

That’s why…
I want you… that I mean
You’re the best I’ve seen
I want you… so won’t you
Say that you want me too?

Oh I want you… to love me
To set my love free
With the warmth of your love & the comfort it contains
Nothing I’d want remains
So won’t you please be mine?

07.26.93 – 02.14.94

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This poem can be sung to the solo piano composition Je te veux, by French composer, Erik Satie (1866–1925). **

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Copyright by Minh Tan on listed dated of completion
and published in Perspectives, ISBN 0-9686250-0-2.

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Notes to this poem…

Ugly Stamps

While sending a postcard
To Italy – from Canada –
I came face to faces
With a quirky little dilemma

No 84 cents stamps –
Instead – I had two 42s
For international mail –
Two Queen Elizabeth IIs

Well – that just meant

Double the licking trouble –
Twice the scare –
And two times the ugliness
That both my eyes could bear!

Please! Canada Post!
Phase out those stamps for me!
Make stamps that look like art –
And not Stephen King graffiti!

09.06.92

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Copyright by Minh Tan on listed dated of completion
and published in Perspectives, ISBN 0-9686250-0-2.

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