amorous fossils

amorous fossils

 

 

bones

of lovers

covered with soft sod

recently filled-in graves of graphic pain

 

skeletons of relationships

of suicide kisses

ring fingers, calcium congregations

of wedding worms crawling down 

some cryptic aisle

 

i found you before they covered us up

we embraced in a chorus of "death do us part"

and then the poison pervaded our proposition

with perpetual misunderstanding

a fatal dose of unwitting misconception

and they laid us out like Romeo and Juliet

 

no Capulets or Montagues to grieve

but ghosts of our hearts

held hands

 

and wept.

 

 

erin-cilberto

11/9/17

Reviews

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

Wow, your creatives juices are overflowing from your pen. Some much beautiful penning in such a sad poem.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words, Dale.
j.

[Gypsy Warrior Queen]

Wow..your really going for it lately! Ive come back to this new writer in you. Your digging deep! A new muse maybe? Whatever it is, I LIKE IT!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, Queenie...

j.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

This Jacob is such a sad sonnet. The opening stanza is such an amazing one as you describe the fall from grace of love once found.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, John.
j.

[Jimmy Yetts]

Know some senior females who might be considered "amorous fossils"--and, for that matter, myself, at times.
Faded love is a tragedy similar to the death of a family member; an experience from which ex-lovers never really recover.
Great offering!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words, Jimmy.
j.

[Lydia Shutter]

How do two people so much in love end up hating one another till death do they part? Some great lines here..."suicide kisses"....brilliant! Such a well written tale of romance gone bad. Lydi**

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words, my friend.
j.

[Einstein Noodle]

love the title :) graphic images and deeply felt ...this is mahvelous, simply mahvelous!
"ring fingers, calcium congregations
of wedding worms crawling down
some cryptic aisle"
killer closing says i!
https://youtu.be/zX1-e0w3mUw
my heart is pierced with hot spikes :{{{
E.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, E....and yes, that is one of my favorite doo wop songs....

[Einstein Noodle]

:) ................