- Non-Erotic Poetry
- Requiem for Paul
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You were
light of my life
not incandescent
(for that would burn out)
nor yet fluorescent
(long cold and blue)
but more like a candle
wavering, smoky, but
not a candle, either, after all
as finally they melt
which you never did.
No, you were just light
or when reflective
the moon.
- COMMENTS
Bill Dadaalmost 17 years agoI loved how you kept coming up with images that weren't good enough until you finally came up with one that was, then you topped it. Very nice.
wildsweetonealmost 17 years agoi mentioned this poem in the new poem review thread in the poetry forum - wildsweetone
