We Melt Together

Katrina Klippstein 1997

Free verse

Rainbows melt together looking like moonless midnight tea.
We melt together.
She melts into misguided memories.

Treasuries of trauma,
Blue and pink in the sauna,
Shopping trips brought on by blips of boredom.
A dress sewn carefully out of dainty floss-hair whispers.

Even indigo gets to live forever.
Like a feeling, it never truly flees.
Like a sunrise, it’ll always come back the next day.
She will not live forever.
There will be sunrises she will miss.
And rainbows trapped out-of-doors.

Like she goes deeper and deeper within her mind,
Pieces, excavated,
Personalities, deteriorated,
Thoughts which do not have time for hatred.

She is coffee, quilts, vans and Bonds,
She is sad, she is glad; miserable too.
She is curious, life-like, wishful, barren.
She is a scream of anger, a giggle of love.

She is a tear in the ocean of sorrow.
She held the Love title for so long, but now,
She melts into reality,
Dragging me,
We melt together.

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Written on August 08, 2020

Submitted by on February 20, 2023

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Scheme	aBc ddxx bcxbxx xeex xxxx xxaaB
Closest metre	Iambic pentameter
Characters	952
Words	191
Stanzas	6
Stanza Lengths	3, 4, 6, 4, 4, 5

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francinek.81254
a sadness of a person leaving someone's life
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pjhernes
There are too many poems that read like random words and imagines thrown together, and it's supposed to be profound, but it's really just confusing and I have to do all the work as the reader to make sense of anything. And I question whether the author worked as hard trying to impose meaning as I have to work to find it. But in this poem, there is really just one intriguing idea to focus on -- rainbows that melt that can define both an individual life (and death) as well as a relationship both in life and in death. That feels worth my time to think about. more »
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CellarDoor
In a weird way this reminds me of one of my favourite songs Malibu by Hole. Also the way this sounds is like how I want my poetry to sound. The feeling this gave me, it truly warmed my soul.
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bextar1977
I dig it
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