So, I am a self-confessed poetry nerd. Some of the posts on this blog will be my own poems (feel free to skip them if you like!) but every so often I'll post poems I love from you know, actual, recognised poets!
The first will be from one of my very favourite poets who has recently become the Poet Laureate- Carol Ann Duffy. She's just brilliant because she is sparing but precise with her language. And for me, her imagery and metaphors are sparkling brilliance; she hits it every time.
As I am a Libran, and therefore completely Venus driven, the first poem post has to be a love poem. Imagine being the muse?!
YOU
Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too late in my head.
so I went to bed, dreaming you hard, hard, woke with your name,
like tears, soft, salt, on my lips, the sound of its bright syllables
like a charm, like a spell.
Falling in love
is glamorous hell: the crouched, parched heart
like a tiger, ready to kill; a flame’s fierce licks under the skin.
into my life, larger than life, you strolled in.
I hid in my ordinary days, in the long grass of routine,
in my camouflage rooms. You sprawled in my gaze,
staring back from anyone’s face, from the shape of a cloud,
from the pining, earth-struck moon which gapes at me
as I open the bedroom door. The curtains stir. There you are
on the bed, like gift, like a touchable dream.
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