Eyes Wide-Shut

Eyes Wide-Shut

 

 

my poetry is 51 years old now

no fanfare,

candles

or cake

 

just a few words to mark the occasion

occasionally scrawled on a white bed

where my thoughts have transposed

the sheets

 

into larcenous awakenings

from stolen ideas in a dream

 

a half-century inclusive

of the place 

a heart rested

even as the pen

became a constant somnambulist

 

 

erin-cilberto

5/24/2021.

Reviews

[red93]

Excellent, good tone. well-modulated, good control, 'does what it says on the tin'.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, red93...
j.

[Relic]

If I'm still writing 40 years from now I hope to be as good. But I don't know. :))))

[jacob erin-cilberto]

you will be excellent as you already are, Relic...
most poets are like wine...age well.
j.

[Relic]

I appreciate that. :)

[Cherrie Palmer]

Well I'm not to far behind with a big old 48 years of poems and stories. Cheers here's to fresh ink and clean paper.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Cheers, Cherrie...
between us, 99 years of writing...
j.

[Poetic Beauty]

Ahh lol be how you write about your poetry and your birthday in the same piece.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yeah...I wish I were 51 again...that's how long I have been writing..age is just a bit more than that...

Okay, a lot more than that...j.

[Poetic Beauty]

With age comes wisdom and insight!!