While I presented (well, I tried to) a Valentine's Day love poem in the previous post, there is always the other side of the love story.
This is my first effort in writing a poem for OneStopPoetry. It is in the Japanese tanka form and tells the story of a my favorite prose subject, the lonely, longing loser.
“I’ll never hurt you,”
Angel carved into my heart –
A promise unkept.
"Never again," she professed,
But all of them do, in time.
true enough ~ never learn ~ nice one Joseph ~Lib
ReplyDeleteYour short stuff is really powerful.
ReplyDeleteNicely done!