Infidelity Poem by Yusef Komunyakaa

Infidelity

Rating: 3.8


Zeus always introduces himself
As one who needs stitching
Back together with kisses.
Like a rock star in leather

& sapphires—conflagration
& a trick of silk falling
Between lost chances & never
Again. His disguises are almost

Mathematical, as Io & Europa
Pass from their dreams into his.
This lord of storm clouds
Is also a sun god crooning desire

& dalliance in a garden of nymphs.
Some days, he loves gloxinia,
& others, craves garlic blooms—
Hera, Aegina, & Callisto in the same song.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Susan Williams 14 April 2016

He wrote a very fine poem with words like gems set in his lines, but being a woman I would rather he wrote of a hero rather than a lecher.

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Barry Middleton 14 April 2016

Ladies beware! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

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Rajnish Manga 14 April 2016

Our mythological gods have wielded enormous power over earth, ocean and the sky by all means- mostly wrong ones, flaunting their Casanova skills and still holding on to their seats of power. The poem brings to fore this aspect quite eloquently.

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Edward Kofi Louis 14 April 2016

In the same song! Thanks for sharing.

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