some classics are difficult to read

some classics are difficult to read

 

 

 

rising from the awkward shadows

the eyes spoke volumes

like dark mines with secret entrances

 

you stood there in brief

a short story pouring out words

Hawthorne's breathing on a page of anxiety

 

questions in the summoning

spelunkers find truce

lips quiver, don't lie

 

walking together in an echoed frame

the picture from a past darkness

finds its sunspots

 

no posing necessary

just a whiff of insane trust

and a old book shaking its dust

 

opening in preface

doubts of the postscript

but willing to investigate

 

the twists and turns

that once drove us underground

because the burning sensation from the sun

 

was more than we could engage

at the time.

so we deliberate

 

back on page one again.

 

 

erin-cilberto

5/26/17

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

When I was young. I dislike the old poetry. After years of reading. Donne, Ben Jonson and Dryden. Their book are always near.
"opening in preface
doubts of the postscript
but willing to investigate"
I agree and I liked the above lines. Thank you Jacob for sharing the amazing poetry.
Coyote

[jacob erin-cilberto]

the old poetry never sent me much, either...and then came Whitman...the earliest Beat poet in my estimation---and the Beats made me want to write my own words...
j.

[Coyote Poetry]

I enjoyed the beat writers also.

[Jimmy Yetts]

Some poets, too. They frequently have "dark mines with secret entrances."
Over and over again, you seek to understand lost love; over and over again, you yearn to find it.
Poignant, noble and beautiful!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yes, we seek to understand---perhaps poetry is a way there.
thank you, Jimmy.
j.

[barleygirl]

I used to read the classics regularly but now my feeble train of thought can't keep up with the multi-layers of thought, storylines, symbolism, etc. I love your observations here . . . the most interesting aspect is how each 3-line stanza could stand alone as a singular thought-provoking idea.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words, barleygirl...
yes, never much into the classics, here...i actually like mystery novels best.

[Beccy]

It's worth it in the end. Paradise is not lost, just terribly difficult to find.

Beccy.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words, Beccy---

yes, I am no Milton, for sure...
but then Paradise can be regained, maybe!

j.

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

Haunting imagery and connection to the classics-Hawthorne! "Dark mines with secret entrances"-beheld through mysterious, passionate eyes. Relationships, born, burn, pause and burn again... Page one waiting... Excellent J.!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words, Annette...i like your perceptions that run deep into the poems you read.read morethank you for your words, Annette...i like your perceptions that run deep into the poems you read.
j.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Puritanical breath and an explorer's pot holing instinct to enter those caves. Expressive from the first stanza to the last. The first sets such a macabre scene with those black holes of eyes!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind review, John...

j.