Love Poem Poem by Dorothea Lasky

Love Poem

Rating: 4.6


The rain whistled.

A taxi brought me to your apartment building
And there I stood.

I had dreamed a dream
Of us in a bedroom.
The light shining upon us in white sheets.

You were singing me a song of your sailing days
And in the dream
I reached deep in you and pulled out a cardinal
Which in bright red
Flew out the window.

Sometimes when we talk
On the phone, I think to myself
That the deep perfect of your soul
Is what draws me to you.
But still what soul is perfect?
All souls are misshapen and off-colored.
Morning comes within a soul
And makes it obey another law
In which all souls are snowflakes.

Once at a funeral, a man had died
And with the prayers said, his soul flew up in a hurry
Like it had been let out of something awful.
It was strangely colored, that soul.
And it was a funny shape and a funny temperature.
As it blew away, all of us looking felt the cold.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Colonel Muhamad Khalid Khan 17 October 2016

Congratulations on being selected for Modern poem of the day.Well done Keep it up Col Muhammad Khalid Khan

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Edward Kofi Louis 17 October 2016

There i stood! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Anil Kumar Panda 17 October 2016

But hope does not die till the end. There is hope that soul will come back with a new attire to face the struggle called life. Nice poem.Congrats for selection.

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M Asim Nehal 17 October 2016

a wonderful poem deserves all applause.

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Ratnakar Mandlik 17 October 2016

A fantastic love poem with love's all the shines and blues. Congrats on it's selection as modern poem of the Day.

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Kevin Hulme 30 September 2023

‘Like it had been let out of something awful'. Good Poem.

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Kumarmani Mahakul 26 June 2023

Well narrated. Beautiful poem as a love poem. Five stars.

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Rajan T Renganathan 26 June 2023

Very nice poem.

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Sheeya Hacks 26 June 2023

Shades of love in three different ways nicely put together, I liked it.

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Susan Williams 17 October 2016

My day to meet unusual poems! What a blessing to meet an entirely different approach to poetry coupled with a mind that flits from topic to topic until the reader sees at the end that all were threads she wove together in a stunning challenge to our thought processes. I am going to have to read more from this poet.

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Dorothea Lasky

Dorothea Lasky

St. Louis, Missouri
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