- Non-Erotic Poetry
- Walkie-Talkie
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Click here"Do you read me?"
No, you don't.
I'm too technical
for your taste,
too jargonesque,
like "Junoesque",
or fat,
depending on your mood.
"Do you read me?"
No, you can't.
I'm too musical
for your taste,
too sharp,
like "Sirens",
or accidentals,
in microtonal notations.
"Do you read me?"
No, you won't.
I'm too personal
for your taste,
too intimate,
like "les petits morts"
or orgasms
with climaxing strangers.
- COMMENTS
Maria2394almost 10 years agoI came across a rec for this work. Normally, your quotes would be distracting, but are absolutely necessary in this poem. I enjoyed it and well, it spoke to me. Glad I found you and I will read more. Keep up the good work!
~maria
DawnJabout 10 years agoAuthor...the range of responses this poem has received. I appreciate all of them, even the unkind anonymous responder who finds my tone "snobbish". I'm not sure I see snobbery in it, but perhaps the anonymous responder feels slighted by something that may have hit too close to home? Who knows? It's not my job, or my desire, to read meaning for others into my work. And "latinized vulgarity"? Wow...NOW who's being snobbish? LOL!
And would you believe, this wasn't about the Internet and impersonal interactions at all. But I am thrilled that someone saw that possibility and brought it to my attention. It's why I publish my work -- I love to see what others see that I wasn't even thinking of. Thank you!
Cleardaynowabout 10 years agoA fairly brave poem to write – assuming my interpretation of the poem is correct. Hence the anonymous response. It is odd, many poems express a feeling that is only a partial or even inaccurate representation of the writer. A poet can write of a murderer’s feelings in the act or on death row without being a murderer – yet we react to this as being precisely your outrage that people do not (all) like your poems.
And of course, we ARE all outraged that everyone does not like our poems. Er, well, I mean to say – it is not just me is it then?
Anonymousabout 10 years ago1. Too snobbish for my liking.
2. "Junoesque": What a latinized vulgarity for magnificent goddess Hera!
