Back
“Writing a poem…is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind.” Mary Oliver
Poetry, I’m back
and sorry I missed our rendezvous
all these May mornings
forsook you for Twitter
Facebook, email, hotmail
Are you mad?
Feeling jilted?
Regretting all the times
you gave it up for me
during our April trysts?
I guess I needed a break
from our hot-and-heavy
so without telling you
without really knowing
that I was doing it
I stayed away…
But I’m back
feeling lonely, guilty
tentative but resolute
though hesitant
to make glib promises
Can we talk?
© 2013 by Violet Nesdoly
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I know it’s been mighty quiet on here. A break from poetry seems to be the way I recuperate from the April’s National Poetry Month binge of poem-writing. I wrote…
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