Hi, friends. Well, my poems this week are not great, but I said I would post them, so here they are!
The first one I scratched out while I was listening to The Hobbit soundtrack. You're allowed to laugh at it.
Darkness Marching
Blood-pulse steps --
Thump
Thump
Dark pocks above the parapets --
Stains upon the sky --
Thump
Here we come to die.
Okay, okay. I know. Catch your breath. This one you may also laugh at, though it's less funny. I find myself at a loss for how to write about real love. I was fine at writing saccharine verse about unrequited crushes (as I mentioned in the last post), but now that I'm married and it's twenty million times deeper than anything I've experienced before, the words don't want to flow as easily. So laugh with pity, at least.
Lullaby for Lovers
Sleep, my lord, a gentle sleep,
A silence deep where you can rest
Apart from churlish cares of day
Crouching, rock-like, on your breast
And I, beside you, heart awake
By edge of Dreamland, vigil hold
To ruin what weapons I bear -
My sins that slay with edges cold
In hopes that when the dawn peeps in
I will not further break what’s broke-
And be only a balm to you,
As worthy as my vow bespoke.
If in our sleep, love, I can kill
The things that make ring false this line -
“I love you most” - you know I will.
Until then, rest, by God’s design.
Wow! I like your poetry, Jaimie! My poetry (if I wrote any) would be utterly horrendous... but I really like reading yours. I think because our beliefs are so similar, as well as our life stages, the topics of your poetry interest and encourage me.
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