a really long poem

a really long poem

 

 

your face

an exquisite painting 

a hologram

 

my hand passed right through yours

I haven't 

an artist's imagination

 

and I don't write 

really long poems

but I kiss

in illustrations

adjacent to

the lines 

of sinful demarcation.

 

 

erin-cilberto

12/10/22

Reviews

[Soren]

This title so misleading, in so few lines there is a lot of information. At first look the title leads one to expect pages of script, but I was deceived, the poem was short. Next expecting a simple theme to such a short piece, I was again deceived, it was deep and complex. So much meaning crammed into so few words. It may mean many things to different people but to me the face a hologram is an image of something not real representing the real but hardly able to perceive the difference. This seems reinforced by the line "my hand passed right through yours" What a nice way to say that the opportunity was lost. All this seemed so well tied up in the masterful wording of the last stanza.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your very kind review, Soren,
j.