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Love - A poem by Adelle

2,248 views · Published 21 December 2008 · 4:12 · Indexed 26 October 2026

Channel: Ken Middleton · 2008 · Education

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This one is for Adelle.

It is an improvised version of another of Adelle's beautiful poems. I recorded it a couple of days ago.

This time I am improvising in a half sung style. I have used the chords Am D G C and E7 in the ukulele part. The ukulele is tuned down to F Bb D G.

The words to Adelle's poem are:

love,
my fingertips have been seared
by the light from your skin.
I remember only the words
you have brought to me-
whispered delicately under the folds of midnight,
something soft
and secret
that I thought only for me.

I feel the weight
of September pressing against 
my chest. summers fade
& my face has grown a little older,
a little older every day.
the robins will return
as rosy as ever:
though I may no longer care to notice,
though I may turn
from their song,
they will return just the same.
I make no illusions on this point.

but for you...
for you the sun rose
pink
& I stood in its glow
to dream.
but for you the stars
seemed so much closer-
I swear I felt them
brushing against my lips-
your flesh was to mine
& I'm sure there were stars...

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