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What is your favorite abstract love poem?

I am never a big fan of abstraction, so I don't necessarily mean "abstract" here. What I do mean is, extended metaphors, personifications and such. What's your favorite love poem that is subtle (as in, indirect, complex) yet astounding? Triggered by the following poem:

You are not beautiful, exactly.

You are beautiful, inexactly.

You let a weed grow by the mulberry

and a mulberry grow by the house.

So close, in the personal quiet

of a windy night, it brushes the wall

and sweeps away the day till we sleep.

A child said it, and it seemed true:

"Things that are lost are all equal."

But it isn't true. If I lost you,

the air wouldn't move, nor the tree grow.

Someone would pull the weed, my flower.

The quiet wouldn't be yours. If I lost you,

I'd have to ask the grass to let me sleep.

- To Dorothy, Marvin Bell.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Raw With Love

    by Charles Bukowski

    little dark girl with

    kind eyes

    when it comes time to

    use the knife

    I won't flinch and

    I won't blame

    you,

    as I drive along the shore alone

    as the palms wave,

    the ugly heavy palms,

    as the living does not arrive

    as the dead do not leave,

    I won't blame you,

    instead

    I will remember the kisses

    our lips raw with love

    and how you gave me

    everything you had

    and how I

    offered you what was left of

    me,

    and I will remember your small room

    the feel of you

    the light in the window

    your records

    your books

    our morning coffee

    our noons our nights

    our bodies spilled together

    sleeping

    the tiny flowing currents

    immediate and forever

    your leg my leg

    your arm my arm

    your smile and the warmth

    of you

    who made me laugh

    again.

    little dark girl with kind eyes

    you have no

    knife. the knife is

    mine and I won't use it

    yet.

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    6 years ago

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    What is your favorite abstract love poem?

    I am never a big fan of abstraction, so I don't necessarily mean "abstract" here. What I do mean is, extended metaphors, personifications and such. What's your favorite love poem that is subtle (as in, indirect, complex) yet astounding? Triggered by the following poem:

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