Image of your Lips
Red underline.
A teardrop that paints
an ocean, without color.
Someone has never
been at your place.
A grace, without
something to keep you
isolated, in depiction.
A beauty without
someone else’s eyes
to capture it.
A canvas. A stroke
across your cheek, to
wipe free, sadness I see.
Here, you bleed this earth
across, laying still
in stiffest memory.
Colors in all you are,
except for water in these
eyes, to filter you
to what I cannot undo.
A depiction. One raw
imitation. From white, into
something that remains
never brand new.
To jump to kiss you
will drown me within
no arms I can repeat,
as you are covered
in something else. In this
image to your lips,
each moment skips
to its next, hearing me
weep upon what
never leaves.
About this poem
About a painter who is reviving the beauty of a woman he loved and lost, as a relived image on a canvas.
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Written on August 22, 2022
Submitted by PeterAWW on September 10, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 736 |
Words | 148 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 6, 8, 10 |
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