Fantasy, Poem

Take Me Back Home Now

Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for dVerse Poets Tuesday Poetics:
The Opticians Words where the challenge is
to use one or two or more sets of words in a poem
in the order in which they appear. This is my poem.

One summer I took his name.
“This means you are mine
and I am yours” he sighed as
we arose from the cold, damp floor.
I stepped nearer for him to remove
my veil and stared into his glistening
indigo eyes, blue-black like the crow.
Grazing his mouth with mine,
lips barely touching, I murmured
“Take me back home now, my love,
to our wedding bed
in the caves by the sea.
Read sonnets and verses to me
as waves churn and cream
against the ocean’s shore.”

NAR©2025

This is “White Wedding” by Billy Idol

The prompt words:
nose – one – cause – even
were – crone – our – summer
name – use – means – arose
near – can – remove – sure
crow – verse – see – renew
assume – once- van – sum
aware – caves – sea – cream

Tuesday Poetics: The Optician’s Words

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43 thoughts on “Take Me Back Home Now”

  9. I like the way you picked your way through the prompt words to create a romantic narrative poem, Nancy, and especially love the description of the character’s ‘glistening indigo eyes, blue-black like the crow’, and the thought of him reading sonnets and verses ‘as waves churn and cream against the ocean’s shore’.

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          1. I’ll admit I am a bit surprised they can fill the Garden. They’re both awesome, but definitely past their peak popularity. I would think one of the casinos would be more the venue they’d book.

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                  1. Tickets for most everything are nuts these days. I won’t say how much I had to pay to see Sammy Hagar last summer. Worth it? Yeah. But still…service fees are a bunch of crap!

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