Poetry / What am I to you?

We are salty skin
Legs intertwined
Fingers through strands of gold.
My heart beating in his palm
While an orchestra tunes itself
To the night time sounds.

What am I to you,
Or you to me?
Another set of lovers
In an overcrowded sphere.

Mouth to mouth
Skin grazes skin
And touches so much more.
I hum along and watch
With star-bright eyes
As he conducts the orchestral accompaniment.

What am I to you,
Or you to me?
Another set of lovers
In an overcrowded sphere.

The dish and the spoon
Run
Run
Run
Away from nuance and possibility
From implications, from consequence.
And they reach for the moon.

But what am I to you,
Or you to me?
Another set of lovers,
In an overcrowded sphere.

If I try to think
Of theme and motive
The words won’t come.

Well, not really words,
Ink on paper,
Which can contain nothing.
…Or everything.
No.  Not “or.”  
“And.”

But what am I to you?
Or you to me?

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malfaedor avatar General Stranger

February 20, 2007

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I’d say you have an interesting free verse style rather than prose and suggest adding a comma after each of the first four lines in the first stanza to improve its flow.  

The repetition of the “another set of lovers” phrase feels extraneous and incomplete.  If this isn’t a song hook, you might consider losing it.

The “dish and spoon” stanza seems strangely at odds with the “orchestral” references, almost as if you were beginning a separate poem.  (For a moment, I was expecting Rock Lobster lyrics.) How does this relate to the rest?

I’d suggest “motif” instead of “motive,” in keeping with the musical theme and place the ellipsis after “nothing,” rather than before “or.”

prettygirlpoet avatar General Stranger

February 13, 2007

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i like how you use the stanza:


But what am I to you,
Or you to me?
Another set of lovers,
In an overcrowded sphere.

repetitively, to get it into the readers head, the listeners heart.  it is a beautiful poem that took me a minute to get the “or” / “and” change and it’s even more powerful once that change is made. i love it.

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