Hymns & Hims by Trisha De GraciaYou grace my pages
grapple with my gripes
or else, you fly
like birds
in gilded cages
coveting the sky
and skimming clouds
and never looking
down.
And so, I write these iron stairs
to chase you from the frigid air
to haul you back
to heave my pen
And never write of you again.
12/17/2008 Author's Note: I was thinking about the reasons why so many of my poems are about men. And love. And unlove. And how literally, all my poems look like iron stairs... I think I'm a little afraid to write real love poems. The kind where everyone's in love. That makes it very, very... real. Anyone know of anyone on here who writes fantastic, "real" love poems? (message me if you'd rather not put it in a comment)
Posted on 12/17/2008 Copyright © 2024 Trisha De Gracia
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Posted by Nanette Bellman on 12/17/08 at 04:01 PM this is dark and heavy to me but it's soo true. i wish there were certain people i could stop writing about... |
Posted by Coleman Demiurge on 12/18/08 at 10:33 PM Well, the problem I see with most "love" poems is that they usually are not very good. And there's a reason for this: Most people tend to write more about their expectations of what love should be, rather than writing about their actual experiences with it (says me anyway). Some people might be able to pull that off, but most can't unfortunately and their works comes off as either simply unrealistic or downright fake, in my opinion. Your poems always read as if they are coming off of true experience; whether or not they really are, I don't know. It doesn't really matter though because they've always been very, very good... This one is no exception to that. Lost-love, or unlove, poignantly summed up with just a hint of discontent... An excellent work in other words; very well done, as usual. (As for others on this site who write "real" love poems: I think Alejandra Dobt and L.N. Frayne are two of the best. Neither has posted in a long time and have taken down much of their work, but there still may be something left to help). |
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