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In the shadow of our love,

you began to dance with another

steps we had never shared.

It was my suggestion,

I designed the invitation

with years of nagging reason.

Now the cries of my objection

are lost under

your sighs of discovery.

And I know it's not

sighs that matter and

I always thought

it might end in tears

but I never planned

they would be mine.

Dear SC

Very professional and economical but so classy

Less is alway more.


Kind regards

Ben

Dear SC ~

Welcome to the Forum . Your poem is very cleverly written. I'm wondering if your last use of "sighs" is intentionally ambiguous. Your lament de-escalates to the singular very effectively. I like how you showed the turnabout. I hope you'll contribute more poems.

~ Lizzytysh

This could be the work of the master.
However he would never post here.
Even so..........

I would like to change the two lines so the ambiguity is a wee bit clearer.



In the shadow of our love,

you began to dance with another

steps we had never shared.

It was my suggestion,

I designed the invitation

with years of nagging reason.

Now the cries of my objection

are lost under

your sighs of discovery.

And I know they say

sighs don't matter and

I always thought

it might end in tears

but I never planned

they would be mine.



thanks for the comments on this poem.

Cohen lite.

cohen lite?
quite alright.

thanks

The poem barely rises to the level of lite. All this faux Cohen. I wish the poets on this board would find their own voices. Say what you will about George's poetry, (and a lot of it is truly awful) the voice is unmistakeably his own.

Moonlight

This is one of the best poems I have read on the board, this is a poem of pure class. I also rate George's poems highly as well. George and I have a great deal of fun on the board, why take it all so seriously?

Have a Happy New Year

Ben

That's just the problem. It is one of the best poems on this board.

Happy New Year to you too!

ok let me come clean. I wrote this in under 5 minutes. It is typical of what I do. I wish I could write much better poems but I can't. they are all fine and interesting and ok'ish. and that's it. any similarity to cohen is chance. this is actaully my own voice.

and, incidentally, Cohen doesn't make such good jokes like "size/sighs doesn't matter"!

I wrote this in under 5 minutes. It is typical of what I do.

It shows. You and river's edge ought to get together. He confuses "ease" in writing with ability too.
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I wrote this in under 5 minutes. It is typical of what I do.

It shows. You and river's disquise ought to get together. He confuses "ease" in writing with ability too.

that is a naiive response Moonlight. I make no confusion between ease of writing and ability. On the contrary I am confessing that I can't develop beyond what comes easy. I am also lucky that what comes easy for me is decent enough (albeit not more). Incidentally, being new here and therefor not knowing anyone's history, is there any special reason why you are so unhappy?

Good Poem, S.C.
ignore the quips.
Georges