Let's pretend my lover.

Just words

                  Let's pretend my lover

Once we were Hemingway and Agnes.
We drank, we made love and we had enough.

The damn Spring was looming near and I saw in your eyes.
The Winter's caress wasn't needed no-more.
The sweet wine had turn bitter and the long and sweet kisses became quick and giving only.

I took you to the Pacific sea.
I held you tightly and I asked you?
Let's pretend my lover.

I see in your eyes.
The sky, the sun and the moons.
I feel your escaping to new seas, a new tropical places.

I knew.
Love was honey and vinegar to you.
Wine was sweet and poison to you.

You told me often.
Don't believe in love.
Men fall in love when they are tire of being alone and woman fall in love because they are bored.

She smiled and she whispered to wanting hears.
I love you my Hemingway.
You love war, you love the sea, you love the words and you love the road.
The cold of Winter brought us together.

We did hold tightly and we told the lovers prayers.
Sweet words when the skin, lips and eyes are content.
You and I.
We are sea and the river.
Rarely touching each other the same way.
You are the running river Johnnie and I'm the dancing sea.

Today me and you.
We will share last glances, we will dance nude and free for the last time.
Monterey will be our safe haven in sweet and deadly dreams.
Thank you.

                          John Castellenas/Coyote

Author's Note

Just words.

Reviews

[Alexa Apothic Red]

I loved your writing in this piece, and the awesome tribute to Hemingway! I love the line "Love was honey and vinegar to you." I could feel her slipping away in the line "I feel you escaping to new seas." It seemed she turned to you when times were hard (winter) but spring would always come as the seasons turn.. this is sweet longing for the past memories shared. A beautiful writing!

[Coyote Poetry]

I loved Hemingway life and books. I try to follow his path to taverns and locations. He said often. Us, writers must bleed to paper and pen. Thank you Alexa for reading and the comment. I do appreciate.

[Alexa Apothic Red]

I agree completely about that purging of our blood to the paper, or screen as it were.

[‘Thoughts In Time..]

Just words that mean so much and run so deep🌹

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you for reading and the comment. I do appreciate.

[barleygirl]

I love the way you use this refrain: "I am this and that" (two contrasting ideas) . . . then, "You are this & that" (again, two different contrasting ideas). This style makes for a thought-provoking read becuz life is full of contrasts. I also love the idea of pretending, as we often do when spending time with people who are gone from our lives in the ways they once were part of our lives, yet we stay in touch, not really connecting anymore, but wanting to pretend & go back to the earlier connections that were squandered. So brilliant in your honest observations, always (((HUGS))) fondly, Margie

[Coyote Poetry]

Good to stay friend. Hard to keep spark alive. Thank you Margie for reading and the comment. I do appreciate.

[raj24]

LOVED IT, SIMPLY LOVED IT, ONCE IN A WHILE WE ALL WANT TO BE THAT OLD LOVER THAT WE WERE ONCE TO EACH OTHER, YOUR WORDS LET ME LIVE THAT BEAUTIFUL TIME. THANKS FOR WRITING IT AND SHARING IT, ITS WONDERFUL :)

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you for reading and the comment. I do agree. Would be nice to be hopeful and young in life and in life.

[Rasheem]

This was a beautifully written poem! I wish I could write something half as deep as this

[Coyote Poetry]

You can. Just release the heart and find the place that you miss. Can be faces, places and love. Thank you Rasheem for reading and the comment. I do appreciate.

[Rasheem]

Thank you for the advice friend.

[duff]

This hits so many different notes it made me smile because it took a clever hand to write it. Wisdom all day long. Great work. A fine read.

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you Duff. I appreciate the comment.

[duff]

You are very welcome.

[CMC]

These are some powerful ideas, and the words incited much emotion from the depths of my soul. "Men fall in love when they tire of being alone," couldn't be any more true. Excellent work.

[Coyote Poetry]

I believe a great writer wrote once. "Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious: both are disappointed"
Thank you for reading and the comment. I do appreciate.

[CMC]

You are very welcome.

[Alfred Kukitz]

a sense of romantic realism pervades this piece. i sensed a tone that brought fruition to your poem.
very nice!

regards,
al

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you Alfred. I appreciate the comment my friend.

[Ardra]

Men fall in love when they are tire of being alone and woman fall in love because they are bored.
(tired? of being alone)

:) that made me smile... god all the ladies you have been have shared such sweets thoughts... mostly i feel all of them had been running away from life, given upon love n searching for some warmth even for a night...to feel alive...
dancing..drinking...forgetting everything else...

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you for the help. I had bad karma for many years. Repayment for being cold and distance. Thank you my friend for reading and the comment.

[wordman]

loved it john,and it made sense what she said

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you my friend for reading and the comment. And you are right.

[wordman]

my pleasure john