Absence Poem by Claude McKay

Absence

Rating: 2.7


Your words dropped into my heart like pebbles into a pool,
Rippling around my breast and leaving it melting cool.

Your kisses fell sharp on my flesh like dawn-dews from the limb,
Of a fruit-filled lemon tree when the day is young and dim.

But a silence vasty-deep, oh deeper than all these ties
Now, through the menacing miles, brooding between us lies.

And more than the songs I sing, I await your written word,
To stir my fluent blood as never your presence stirred.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
nontokozo 02 June 2018

Wow the poem is marvellous

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John Tiong Chunghoo 12 May 2006

this must be real love. young love.

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