in the box

in the box

 

 

interrogate me tonight

i might be in the mood

to poem you some answers

 

yet shallow as they may be

i will never let you look inside me

i will rot in the cell

 

before you are privy to my themes

my replies will border on obscurity

but in the abstract hours

 

there may be some clues

may be some accessibility

some vulnerability

 

a chance for you

to break my heart's case

or maybe, 

 

you will just thank me for my time

the few syllables

the rhyme

 

give me leave

to confess to my keyboard

and grant my own reprieve.

 

 

 

erin-cilberto

7/28/18

Reviews

[Chris Shaw]

A great subject for a poem. Just how much of ourselves do we put in our poetry and just how much do we want to reveal to the audience. Clues may be left, but they may not be understood. Readers generally want to find meaning in the words, not just picking up on imagery. When I read a poem, I want to leave it thinking I have understood what the poet was trying to convey. If I can't do that, I either think it wasn't a good poem, or I was too thick to interpret it. But then again poetry is subjective, what I have understood may not be what the poet intended. I ask myself does it matter?

Chris

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Exactly---i don't think many poets really want us to know what was behind the writing of a piece...and if it is a good piece of writing and Universal?
the reader will relate in his or her own way...

some readers try to figure out the poet...or figure out what the poet was thinking when he or she wrote the piece....but i tell all of my students in Lit class to simply worry about what they are thinking when they read the piece...
thank you, Chris...
j.

[Neville]

Hear, hear.. or here, here... absolutely