Drawn through love’s risky shoals
to a small island built of poetry
and interrupted conversations
we meet between worlds
while birds chatter here
dogs bark there
and my cicadas sing dusk
to your dark night.
Before bed
you teach me lessons
in a new language
where yes is close to sin
and the need seems precise.
Yet we wait
patient in the knowledge
our heartbeats find each other
again and again
no matter how vast
the ocean.
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tender is the night, and this poem with it. lovely– I adore these lines–and my cicadas sing dusk
to your dark night.
You strike just the right note with this–xxxj i’m at http://parolavivace.blogspot.com . xxxj
soft, lilting, sad ….
love this line:
“where yes is close to sin”
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some sin now and again can be good for the soul.
:0)
A wonderfully emotional write, very loving feel to it. Great piece!
Your poetry is really appealing to me at the moment…love the sentiments in this!
so good to be in love…this poem captures it well!
As a die-hard romantic, I love this poem “our heartbeats find each other no matter how vast the ocean” *sigh* ya’ hooked me, Matt! Lovely write. :))
concisely, effortlessly pretty. a tribute to connection.
I love this world you’ve painted in words.
feels you’re skimming pebbles across the poetic surface… millpond : dive dear man.. take us with you 🙂
x MB
Lovely work, Matt. If a heart can have a shadow, you’ve shined your poetic light on my heart and others, no doubt. A wonderful expression of emotion and impression.
really, truly beautiful
Fine love poem, Matt. I won’t quote it all back to you, but every word was golden.
Wonderful line: where yes is close to sin
a new language where yes is close to sin…haha…that is one risk i def dont mind taking…the knowledge our heart beats find in each other…another very nice line…great piece…
A perfect refuge…a place of hope. Well done.
I liked the idea of patience. Love needs patience to deepen and to understand. I think it heightens the romance as well. Lovely poem. G.
Commitment and sincerity. I love this… The last two stanzas are my favorite.
nicely done 🙂
I’m glad to see so many comments here. People can always relate to love, it’s great use for a world where we do need it. This poem is lovely and very personal, I can’t pick a favorite line or stanza, every words speaks to my heart here. Patience, and you two will be together, as right as rain.
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xoxo
i wonder if you write about a love affair on the internet where the lovers are in different countries…far away from each other…the disrupted conversations….the foreign language…very nice write matt
Matt, nice write. Really enjoyed the blending of worlds, fantasy and reality, reflection and the concrete. Very nicely done:)
“we meet between worlds” –so often this appears to be the case when a relationship is new…very nice Matt..bkm
several interpretations possible, but all beautiful! like others before me, i found ~
“where yes is close to sin”
breathtaking!
Stunning
Hot. Sweet. Loving. Rejeuvenating. (Sorry, never could spell the latter word.)
I know these interrupted conversations well. Such is life in love. Nicely told, the part about the shoals and islands is lovely.