poetry

I am NOT a poet. I wrote horrid, melodramatic poetry in high school and occasionally, I will write cornball poems in my husband’s anniversary or birthday cards. But one of my characters decided she was a poet.

Lorelei (from Dismantling Spider Webs) broke off an affair with her lover after her husband died. While she mourned the husband she had demonized in her head, she also struggled with the lingering after effects of her extramarital affair.

Lorelei wrote this poem:

Good Night Kisses

As slumber edges away rational thought

Wisps of my lover’s last kiss visit

Pulsing tension on my bottom lip, quiver

Neck is measured by tongue widths

Ear lobe warms from tingling frost bite

Eye lids are sealed with a smooth seal

Kisses–phantom and fading echoes–say goodnight.

I have no standards to judge poetry. If it is bad, feel free to blame Lorelei. If there is any worth, consider it a fluke.

Are you a poet? What poems speak to you?