Why is everyone obsessed with love poems
is it the honeyed words
or sugary sentiments?
does biting into a love poem sate your sweet tooth?
are the darker poems bitter on your tongue?
people tell me that love poetry warms them
i ask: warm like a blanket- cozy and familiar? do love poems smell like sleep and feel like safety after a hard day?
or is it the warmth of a fire? unpredictable, uncontrollable, dangerous
is the allure of it the fear of leaning in and losing yourself entirely?
is that what the reader wants?
or is it that
for just a moment
you're in a different place
in the body of the poet
in the arms of someone who loves you
before the final stanza ends
and you are back to where you started
YOU ARE READING
garbage bin explicitly for my poetry
Poetrythis is gonna be an area where i can stash my "poems" heads up y'all these are all from different times in my life- sometimes i'll post really old poems with no editing, or like the first stanza is from forever ago and i added on, or its old but i...
