silent movie

silent movie

lip reading your soft parchment

i run my fingers along your edges

typeset imprints like tiny freckles

cover your page with my adoration

we are poems in transition

revisions eternal

never an end punctuation

just more perusal

of what's in our hearts

we are theme

we are dream

we ride in the carriage

of an old Underwood 

stressed and unstressed vowels

who made a vow

to write upon each other's 

stationery core

the stationary love

we memorize with rote reasoning

even when we know our hearts' script

can be remembered 

without words.

8/12/18

Reviews

[Jimmy Yetts]

"We ride in the carriage
of an old Underwood."

Now that's a vintage ride!
Fiendishly clever in both word-play and concept.
THE END.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, Jimmy.
j.

[Lyn Anderson]

I love this. Whenever a person truly loves writing, and uses those terms and images to describe love, it is magical

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words, Lyn.
j.

[Emily Muir]

Well written, your use of words make it more beautiful to read!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words, Emily.
j.

[Gypsy Warrior Queen]

Funny these days everytime I hear a clicking that resembles a typewriter I think to myself...Oh J. must be hatching out a new beautiful poem :)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words, Queenie.
j.

[Lydia Shutter]

Great play on words with "stationary" and "stationery". Indeed, the heart needs no words and sometimes words of love seem cliche. Your poetry, though, Jacob, often leaves me with a smile. You are so clever. Lydi**

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind review, Lydi.
j.

[drew garner]

I think your work is great somewhere between the beat poets and the romantics
And I particularly like this poem.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

that is a really kind compliment...thank you, drew.
j.

[Resa]

So beautifully written.
I really enjoyed reading this.
Thank you for sharing .
Resa, :]

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words, Resa.
j.

[Ardra]

The last parah made me feel like the lovers taking vow to love each other....and each promise by heart by them.... very beautiful poem ...
Love the softness of it...
Thank you for sharing this one:)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words, Ardra.
j.

[‘Thoughts In Time..]

Words aren’t needed when we feel with the heart- each vowel each pause each letter making us complete without speaking the words out loud- oh what a beautiful poem full of love emotion - I feel the touch within tender words- just beautiful from a beautiful tender loving heart🌹

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your very kind words, Kelly.
j.

[‘Thoughts In Time’🌹]

Always pleasure- pleasure reading beautiful words🌹

[Patricia Wedel]

dear Jacob... I learned to type on an Old Underwood... loved the sound of swinging the Carriage. There was a rhythm and song to printing your words. I learned to love and live by reading and writing poetry and still find the Letters in the same position on our new innovated I- phones... and can even attach photos and music. truly, Pat

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i prefer the old typewriters to the new technology...:)))
thank you for your kind words and reminisces, Pat.

j.