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You Gave Me New Life

from Love Unbidden - love poems for Irene by Peggy Seeger

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YOU GAVE ME NEW LIFE

Civil Union, December 15 2006 in the Woolwich Town Hall

From the hot, liquid birth of love
Came the turmoil of our planet's cooling
Nights when we lay too close to make love
Days when we were too apart to part
Layer laid upon heavy layer
Bound us together as we became truly One

Some couples become diamonds
Brittle, glittering, on guard
They exhibit in public and declare
(Methinks they protest too hard)
'See how together we are
After all we have been through!'

But you and I
We stopped short of crystallisation
Our layers softened and summered
Holding us in evolutional safety
Yesterday and the days before
Throughout these eighteen years

Today, my most dear love
My other two-thirds
I again vow my life to you
Knowing that we have been compacted
Not into a neat faceted jewel but into coal
An uneven, glorious lump of anthracite
Bright, black and ready for burning
To keep us warm during the good years
That lie ahead

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from Love Unbidden - love poems for Irene, released June 26, 2020

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Peggy is one of the most influential folk singers on either side of the Atlantic. She is Pete Seeger’s half-sister and Ruth Crawford Seeger’s daughter; her first life partner was the English songwriter Ewan MacColl, who wrote First Time Ever I Saw Your Face for her. She has made more than 22 solo recordings to date. Please check ewanmaccoll.bandcamp.com for other albums featuring Peggy. ... more

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