weight of love



i crave you like the beggar's fruit
with both hands clutched to each wanted bite

and wear you like a tatoo
emotionally etched as a drawn bruise

or smell you like a lingered perfume
in the lint pocket of our youths

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i drink you with the most essential thirst
after thousands of days walking
in Solemn's Shoes

can you feel the thickness of my callous feet
or see the sure strength my knees which hold
the heavy load of love which weighs
the thousand miles of sun you radiate
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AX AB XX XXB XXXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 514
Words 89
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 3, 4

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i once read a poem by neruda, and it touched me to a point that propoelled my interest. and then i read althuzer by vicente huidobro whereby a man parachuted from the sky and the world unfolded into his poetic epic and it took me to a different place different from my ignorant geography of poetry. but then jorge luis borges blew my mind and made poetry not only about truth but utter sublime fiction amidst an exploded horizon- boundless literature off a free falling cliff and the only thing to do was grow wings in midair and take the ride. more…

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