Unrequited Love

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unrequited Love

 

 

You fancy living by the sea

Or so I've often heard

Riding horses, sunset glee

All of which sound quite absurd..

 

Endless green reflects the skies

Amazes your eyes

And sings your spirit back to life?

Or so foretold your uncle's wife.

 

The sea is not a Cello tune

Not big-hearted nor forgiving

Not more quenching than desert dunes

Not a reverie for forgetting

Tongue-slips, faces, and fractured moons

 

The sea turns grey and dreary

Swallows ships and pirate dens

Reassuringly and on the contrary

Waters swarm with vile fins

Of vile beasts and mourning whales

That die ashore of mortal sins

 

Summer days are of no name

Salt and bitterness and complaints

Of women with hair stubbornly tamed

 

Nights are lit by fidgeting stars

That find no solace in guiding the lost

Your breath would stick in humid bars

And rents with hurtful, rising costs

Only to be able to hear a far

But unchanging, callous howl

 

If you could manage

To fit your thumb in a keyhole

Or give white the name black

Then be my guest

And join the line

Of waiting for the sea to love you back.

 

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

I enjoyed the complete poem. The ending made the poem complete.
"If you could manage
To fit your thumb in a keyhole
Or give white the name black
Then be my guest
And join the line
Of waiting for the sea to love you back."
No weakness in the outstanding poem.
Coyote

[Jeff]

Excellent work!

[YouoweYoupay]

Excellent review! : )

[Sami Khalil]

"Waters swarm with vile fins

Of vile beasts and mourning whales

That die ashore of mortal sins"
I like this poema lot especially those lines...:)

[YouoweYoupay]

I like these lines too! You and I have alot in common. ; ) Thanks for reading!

[Sami Khalil]

I think so....You are welcome...:)