a poet’s notebook

Love 6

6.

Love is a married man.
He is strong and lean; he’s a tree.
He carries his son on his shoulders.
Love is a tunnel of laughter.

We lie together, chastely.
The bed is on fire. When I send
him away, we kiss forever.
I send him away, though my skin

is sloughing, my bones are cracking,
little fractures, one by one. When
he leaves, the walls fall down.
I sleep in the burning wreckage.

   

This is part of a series I’m working on.

   

Poetry Thursday From the Poetry Thursday site:

For the next few weeks, several Poetry Thursday participants will take
turns hosting the Thursday post on their blogs. This week, please visit The Polka Dot Witch
where you will be able to a) leave your comment linking to your
Thursday post about poetry, b) find out next week’s prompt, and c) find
out who will host the next Thursday post.
[It will be jillypoet.]

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7 responses to “Love 6”

  1. Jessica Avatar

    Holy cow this is powerful, especially the 2 last stanzas and the very last line. I like it a lot!

  2. Tumblewords Avatar

    I like your series, it flows along – love is a many-faceted trip.

  3. gautami Avatar

    Your series is coming great!

  4. Damien Riley Avatar

    Thank you for your recent comments on my blog. I really liked this poem. Such contradiction in the line: “We lie together, chastely.”
    Good stuff, keep it up!

  5. Anne Avatar

    I keep a mental filing cabinet of certain things and people who cross my path. The top drawer has a label which reads “Deeper Magic”. Sort through the files and you will find SB.

  6. Robin Reagler Avatar

    I agree with the others, SB. Very powerful. Wow.

  7. rr Avatar

    Hot damn I’m loving these. Love love love 🙂

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