Fishermens Tales

Why do us poets write of the loves we never wom more than the ones that we did? This non rhyming poem - a rarity from me - explores the topic...

Castiglione’s advise on this, well known to Yeats, was literally taken to heart. The courtier must create an image of the beloved in his “his imagination as an abstraction distinct from any material form, and thus … enjoy it there always … without fear of ever losing it.” (Source >>>)

What is it about poets
As we call ourselves
Who write of love we never got
As we never tried
Or tried where we knew there was no hope
Against reason
By compulsion?

We write of the beloved
Who did not want to know
About love
Or our type of love anyway.

We tell in verse to others
Of the one who got away
Who was never on the hook
Or nibbled it
As haughtily she swam by
Too clearly in the murky water seeing
The fisherman above with his awkward grin
He is no hunter
He is no fisherman
Who captures more on paper than in the net.

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Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yes, we have an entire basket full of air, no lovers...they seem to have slipped through our fingers, or just never took the bait...

i love to fish and really appreciated the angler references...

if we don't catch them in real life...our imaginations do that for us, and on paper, we can tell long tales of love, leaving out the ones who got away, or maybe focusing on them to make better poems--

[Nisreen]

That is a good question
why

i guess we must be hopeless romantics
lost in the sea of love

because loving someone is to be truly alive in all its ways

gorgeous