My Love Has Wings

[Anticitizen]

Once upon a time, I found the entire text to Roddenberry's poem fragment used in 'Where No Man Has Gone Before', titled 'My Love Has Wings'. It was written as an ode to his WWII airplane. It's been well over a decade since I saw it, and now it's nowhere to be found on the Internet, despite my considerable Google-fu skills. Does anyone have the full text?

 

[Rush Limborg]

As I recall, it's title was "Nightingale Woman". Gary mentioned it in WNMHGB.

Try that.

 

[Shatmandu]

"My love has wings. And my nosy neighbors called the cops on me when I expressed it physically."

Written by Colonel Sanders, circa 1961.

Joe, noted chicken historian

 

[gastrof]

"My love has wings. Slender feathered things with grace and upswept curve and tapered tip."

Someone said it was a real poem and actually WASN'T written by Tarbul on the Canopius planet in 1996.

Bah.

The very idea!

 

[Nerys Myk]

"My Love has nacelles..." hey, what rhymes with nacelles??

 

[Anticitizen]

Ma belle...

 

[Jeri]

"My love has wings. Slender feathered things with grace and upswept curve and tapered tip."

Someone said it was a real poem and actually WASN'T written by Tarbul on the Canopius planet in 1996.

Bah.

The very idea!

Well, there's this:

Nightingale Woman
by Tarbul of Canopius

I lie in bliss,
surrounded by the mist,
Caressing and swirling,
dissipating in the night air.

The sky beckons me
as it glimpses through the trees,
Bedecked in jewel-encrusted stars
its adornment a pearl moon pair.

Arise! For lo I hear,
one who is dear.
Her sweet call entices me
to stretch out my arms so longingly.


The rustling leaves pull apart
accenting the beating of my heart,
As gracefully she moves
sliding, gliding so sensuously.

My love has wings,
slendered feathered things,
with grace, and upswept curve,
and tapered tips.

Her delicate form alights,
glowing in the night,
With reverence her name
slips from my lips.

Bounded to the ground,
without another sound,
Slowly I move
into the widening, silken arms.

Her shimmering wings enfold,
what warmth, depth to behold!
My life eternally entwines
within her infinite charms.

Rising, she pulls me up
while ecstasy fills my cup.
Clinging to my alien angel,
I breathe the enticing scent of her hair.

All too soon I will lie in bliss,
once again surrounded by the mist,
Awaiting my lover's call,
sweetly singing in the night air.

 

[Anticitizen]

I found that. Unfortunately, it's fanfic. Thanks for trying, though. I guess it's just gone.

 

[Jeri]

^ ^ Yeah, I wasn't answering the topic post; rather the wry Tarbul comment in the post I quoted.

 

[Anticitizen]

I'm bumping my two-and-a-half year old topic; i think it's for a good cause. A great number of new members have shown up since the new movie came out. I hope someone new here has an answer.

I swear I read the original full poem at some point in the distant past. Does anyone have a definite answer as to whether the full poem exists to this day?

Amusing anecdote: I totally forgot that I ever created this thread. I googled 'my love has wings' looking for an answer, and one of the first results was this thread that I created a few years ago. I'm still questing

 

[Gepard]

I'm bumping my two-and-a-half year old topic;

Why you... I read the first few posts and freaked out that Shatmandu was back – or so I thought. 1000 lashes with a wet noodle!

 

[6079SmithW]

There's this:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6025378/1/The_Nightingale_Woman

But it is also fanfic. Different from Jeri's, though.

 

[Captain Robert April]

I'm gonna ask around on this one...

 

[Anticitizen]

I'm bumping my two-and-a-half year old topic;

Why you... I read the first few posts and freaked out that Shatmandu was back – or so I thought. 1000 lashes with a wet noodle!

Heh... sorry. I was actually Googling for it, and the first result was this very thread, which I had forgotten about. I figured I'd ask again to see if any of the newcomers had an idea.

 

[scotpens]

. . . Someone said it was a real poem and actually WASN'T written by Tarbul on the Canopius planet in 1996.

Phineas Tarbolde, actually.

Gary Mitchell says to Dr. Dehner: “That's one of the most passionate love sonnets of the past couple of centuries.” Since those brief lines don’t fit the meter or rhyme structure of either the English or Italian sonnet, we must assume the Canopian sonnet is a completely different form.

And all “complete” versions of the poem are fanfic.

 

[Brutal Strudel]

I'm bumping my two-and-a-half year old topic;

Why you... I read the first few posts and freaked out that Shatmandu was back – or so I thought. 1000 lashes with a wet noodle!

Same here.

Rey, crestfallen

 

[Captain Robert April]

I'm doing a Google search of my own, and Bjo's gonna see if Rod has a copy.

 

[T'Bonz]

I'm bumping my two-and-a-half year old topic; i think it's for a good cause. A great number of new members have shown up since the new movie came out. I hope someone new here has an answer.

Next time, just start a new thread. It would be better than resurrecting one so old. If you need info from the old thread, you can always copy/paste to a new one.

 

[Captain Robert April]

On the other hand, why let a perfectly good thread go to waste?

 

[Anticitizen]

I'm bumping my two-and-a-half year old topic; i think it's for a good cause. A great number of new members have shown up since the new movie came out. I hope someone new here has an answer.

Next time, just start a new thread. It would be better than resurrecting one so old. If you need info from the old thread, you can always copy/paste to a new one.

Sorry. Some boards I frequent see starting a new thread in this case as a big no-no, saying, 'there's already a thread on this, you should've searched first!' You know how it goes...