When you think of a poet here...

[butters]

which ONE of their poems first springs to mind? which is their 'defining' poem in your eyes?

I wonder how many of us will be in agreement

For Harry, it's his dark journey Gone Down. 'course he's written so many i love, but that one ... just wow!

For Bronzeage, his blackberry/storm piece is always the first.

Tristesse - HAS to be Walter and the Naiad

add yours here
(i've plenty of others but i need to get some food!)

 

[UnderYourSpell]

I love, love, love this by Champ
.
I didn't know my daddy,
Mom says he was a sailor
the youngest papered
on the Great Lakes.

But what does that mean
when the hand-me-down clothes
are outgrown and siblings
return from a trip to the zoo
and talk about the monkey
and the elephant;
and the one left behind
just feels like another exhibit.

But, that's all right
since he was the only man
you truly loved. So, why did you let him
get away with not loving
his misbegot?

 

[Trixareforkids]

Tzara, Love Is Too Early A Word

Love is too early a word
for my unsubtle stare,
though it is what my body thinks

when you walk away or flip your hair
idly over your coffee. How light
pools in the depths of your eyes

my body reads as love,
even if all it means is you can’t remember
if you left food out for the cat

or lost a towel at the Laundromat—
the mauve one that was so soft.
Only later, when we know how to talk

about baseball or comics or Keats,
will the word really fit, if it ever does.
For now, it’s simply Want,

where the camera of my biology
focuses your image in its lens
and snaps Love snaps Love snaps Love.

 

[Trixareforkids]

Todski, The Sound of Leaving

Guilty Pleasure, [url="https://www.literotica.com/p/toasted-transgressions]Toasted Transgressions[/url]

 

[Trixareforkids]

Butters, uninvited

Tried to add this to my previous post it things went all wonky.