Romance Poetry posted December 18, 2024


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Nocturnes

by estory

I
 
If I told you I loved you,
Would you let me touch you
 
With the tips of my fingers,
Or would you turn into a bird
 
And fly up to the treetops?
I watch your body
 
Become another body,
Beautiful, but distant;
 
Like a vision of Sheherezade
Dancing in the sultan's Palace.
 
II
 
Still, I would follow you
As the geese follow the moon,
 
Turning my back on home,
All the things I once loved,
 
For one glimpse of you
Shimmering in the twilight
 
Like quicksilver
Or magic.
 
III
 
In my hands you awaken.
You move like the moon moves
In its crescents,
Its tides.
 
In my hands
You are a statue of Venus,
A goddess of love,
Come alive.
 
You step like a deer
In the shadows
In my hands.
 
You bloom like a flower,
If only for one hour.
 
In my hands
You melt like the snow
And drip through my fingers.




I have to say I consider this poem to be among my best. The couplet construction through most of it speaks to the elements of attraction as well as the separations between lovers. The transcendent imagery I think could be some of my best. I think it captures the sense of seduction, mystery, and the delicate trust, the pull and push of attraction. And in the last stanza there is this sense that love is a transitory moment, something we can't quite hold in our hands, no matter how much we try to grasp it. There is a side to our lovers we can never quite know, never quite own. Therein is the joys and pains of love. In some ways it doesn't quite fit with the theme of Ruin in this collection, but I felt that because of the romantic imperfection of the moments described here, it might lend itself after all. estory
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