If You've Never Been Loved By A Poet

By Carmina Gitana

If you've never been loved by a poet,
you really ought to try it.
They love with an excessive tendency to beauty
and an obsessive attention to detail.

A poet will always remember
the exact shade of your eyes,
birthdays, anniversaries,
and the way your face looked in the moonlight,

and anyone who harbors that much passion
for a particular type of paper and pen
is probably pretty good in bed.

Best of all, when you are through
with being written about
and have started cruising Adult Literacy meetings,
you don't have to feel guilty -

she'll just switch to sadder poems,
and when that's done, why,
she might just put her head in the oven,
considerately leaving you with a good story to tell other women.

Yes, if you've never been loved by a poet,
you really ought to try it.

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© 2009 Carmina Gitana
Published on Wednesday, March 25, 2009.     Filed under: "Ironic" and "Poetry"
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  • Salty Ships On Monday, March 18, 2013, Salty Ships (31)By person wrote:

    I like how this touched on the subject of writers often noticing more of the world and feeling more emotions than others normally do. It flowed very well. Also digging the reference to the tortured Sylvia Plath.

  • sIo On Sunday, May 13, 2012, sIo (926)By person wrote:

    Dp needs a like button like bookface

  • FadedBlues On Wednesday, May 2, 2012, FadedBlues (2172)By person wrote:

    ..entertainingly true, especially the 'good in bed' part: the ones I know would never deny it...

  • Mylissa On Saturday, May 16, 2009, Mylissa (845)By person wrote:

    beautiful.

  • A former member wrote: ha ha I loved the third stanza. That's a fairly truthful statement. :)

  • Soldier Of Silence On Sunday, May 10, 2009, Soldier Of Silence (42)By person wrote:

    That was gasoline on my heart. I have the matches. Perfect and couldn't have said it better myself. It hits home. Nicely done! It made me giggle a little, I'll have to ask my girlfriend how I am in bed....

  • Carmina Gitana On Friday, May 15, 2009, Carmina Gitana (152)By person wrote:

    If you have to ask . . . ;) Just kidding; thanks a lot for commenting :)

  • Stranger On Tuesday, March 31, 2009, Stranger (264)By person wrote:

    This hits pretty close to home. Love is something poets often excel at to the point of failure. You were able to draw a smile out of me with this one -- while subtly requiring a deeper self-examination of my own emotional pathology.

  • Carmina Gitana On Tuesday, March 31, 2009, Carmina Gitana (152)By person wrote:

    "Love is something poets often excel at to the point of failure." That should be a line (or two :) in a pom. Seriously.

  • A former member wrote: I understand this all too well

  • A former member wrote: Sad, but true.

  • Joey On Wednesday, March 25, 2009, Joey (31)By person wrote:

    i like this. for reasons i can't say. but i just do..

  • Alanarchy On Wednesday, March 25, 2009, Alanarchy (1200)By person wrote:

    Reminds me of myself. I have an obsessive NEED to write about the one I love, and unless that person has at least an interest in poetry, It's never a good idea to share to much of that. I won't stick my head in an oven :) Might just push away or pull to hard. And then, when it's over I'll just write about you some more. Gah, what a world. Very solid. Very insightful. Wish I had more room to bookmark. Maybe later. Write on.

  • A former member wrote: ...impactful.....almost sarcastic, but not quite dripping. . . . but still, the pseudo.stereotype fits your description here to the letter [scarlet or not]. . .and i just heard plath's son hanged himself recently. makes one wonder. if he'd ever been loved......like this, was this, like his mother, like his father. . .. .

  • A former member wrote: Oy...now that's horrible news. That kind of depression usually is genetic, but I'm sure who his mother and father were, rather than the dna they were made of, had something to do with it as well...really makes the poem hit that much harder...yow..

  • Fantecstasy On Wednesday, March 25, 2009, Fantecstasy (122)By person wrote:

    Terrible beauty. I wish this didn't weigh so heavily on me, but it does, and it's still so perfect. Lovely. *tips hat*

  • Shortnlethal On Wednesday, March 25, 2009, Shortnlethal (65)By person wrote:

    i really like this poem..so ture it is!

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