Love Poem

 

Love Poem

 

 

 

 

 

i am a poser

composing poems

that contain treachery

between the lines

of brazen secrecy

 

i am a metaphor

of sorts

always meaning something other

than what is written

covertly silent

 

i am the illegitimate 

child of rhyme

a sign of the mime

expressions

indicating love

 

but

 

if you subject yourself

as object of my false affections

you will reside 

in an allegory

from which you cannot

 

retrieve your heart.

 

 

 

erin-cilberto

8/19/22

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

Us, who love to write Jacob. We adore words and we adore memories. I liked the honest tone of your words. Us, who love to write. We want more and we cannot have her. Thank you for sharing the amazing poetry and your thoughts.
Coyote

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your very kind words, Coyote,
j.

[Coyote Poetry]

You are welcome Jacob.

[Ken e Bujold]

this poem reminds me of a conversation I had many years ago. An friend of a friend at a party hearing I was poetically inclined opined that Poet's in order to be good have to have an innate sense of the heart. I was somewhat baffled by this, but on reflection I told her, "no, not really, we're just infinitely more cruel in how we go about sharing our heartbreaks with the world."

[jacob erin-cilberto]

and Sylvia Plath said "readers want to know from somebody who has been there and felt the worst"---
readers seem to relate better to pain.

thank you, Ken,
j.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

"Everyone is so untrue." Billy Joel from "Honesty". That's irony incarnate.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yes, it is...thank you, Fabian,
j.

[Carlos Lorenzo Estrada]

I thank God I'm not good at love poems. It would require a bit of expertise on a subject I know very little of even as an older man. Which I readily admit. This artful piece of poetry says so much on the subject and perhaps lingers a question on the intent of those who are driven to write effusively about it. Such art is alluring but so to was a particular apple to Adam and we saw where that led. Perhaps there is a bit of envy in me for not being able to create wonderous work that speak to our most virtuous of virtues and most human of emotions. In someway a part of me wants to side with the snake as a voice of reason as well as temptation. When it comes to love be weary what you ask for, because it may be more than one should know. Excellent poem J. You know the work is good when you have other artists pondering its message and the relevance of it in themselves. This piece lingers with me in a good way.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

three marriages and divorces later, all I learned is to refuse to bite the apple.
I apreciate your very kind review,
j.

[Stella Armour]

oh dear .... beware of gigolos at all costs lol

[jacob erin-cilberto]

you're too funny....thanks for the smile, Stella,
j.

[Patricia Wedel]

I pose for Poems… in a Gallery of Rhymes…
I am a Mime with motions … Affections are out of the Blue when there is a New Moon. gently, Pat

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Ah yes, a mime with motions....thank you, Pat,
j.

[W. Barrett Munn]

This sounds like it could have been written as the prequel to the song, "Wicked Games", be very careful of whom to believe no matter what they show or say. Yes, only love can break a heart so be sure from the very start.
W.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Oh, I like that Gene Pitney reference there..."Only Love can break a heart, only love can mend it again."
thank you, Winston,
j.

[John the Baptist]

The love poem as illegitimate child of rhyme. Interesting metaphor. Come to think of it, though, some rhymers have been real b******s.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, John....for your words and the smile.
j.