Anatomy of Human Relationships
Several
readers have been in touch to ask why second editions of my collections will only
(eventually) be available as e-books. Copies don't sell well enough these days to justify publication in print form.
Poetry collections
are rarely high on anyone’s wish list, and I don’t
envisage any substantial change in the global economic situation for some years
yet.
Meanwhile…
Even love
has to compromise now and then, on which occasions its scales are inevitably unevenly
balanced.
All
relationships can be hard work from time to time as the heart feels its way through
their darker side to a togetherness filled with light...
ANATOMY OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS
I look in
my mirror, see you
looking
for me...
on the
other side of Time,
recall
other places,
kinder
faces, where sorrow
disappears,
your lips
on mine,
two naked bodies
in the
swim of life’s
finer
joys, the once-again
summer of
our years,
two brave
hearts beating
as one
A cup of
tea sure to ease me
into
dawn's misty shine;
you
prefer coffee, and we'll
share
burnt toast,
walk a
crooked line between
stains on
the tablecloth,
lay bets
on who can avoid
the most
A
cheerful grin as choral din
breaks
out (heaven on cue),
no
sweeter sounds to sift us
through
and through,
suffer
me, suffer you, again
and
again. Let it rain
or shine,
embrace the day
with
half-open eyes;
come
pain, strife, tumble me
out of
this earthy bed
where I'm
learning to live
with your
lies
Century
racing on, all of us
hoping to
win, anxious
to show
we can, thoughts busy
winding
in such rare strands
as ever
came together, daring
to reach
out for one another,
rewrite
the poetry of separation
at
Will-Be-Done
Dark side
of the sun
Copyright
R. N. Taber 1999; 2011
[Note:
This poem has been slightly revised (2011) from an earlier version that first
appeared in the anthology What
Inspires Us, Poetry Now
(Forward Press), 1999 and subsequently in 1st eds. of Love And Human
Remains, Assembly Books, 2001; 2nd (revised) e-edition in preparation.]
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Labels: endurance, human, life, love, nature, poetry, relationships, stoicism, time
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