Week 23 Blog 2A: Another Write-Like Poem

TASK: Write a write-like poem using “The Taxi” or “Love Without Love” as your model. Last week’s poem should have been about a childhood memory involving platonic love between parent/child. This week’s poem should be about a reflection on the nature of romantic love. What does love mean to you?

Your poem can be rhymed or in free-verse. Post your poem in comments below, and also send a copy of it to Mr.Sabath via email.

Model Poems:

Love Without Love
-Luis Lloréns Torres

I love you, because in my thousand and one nights of dreams,
I Never once dreamed of you.
I looked down paths that traveled from afar,
but it was never you I expected.
Suddenly I've felt you flying through my soul
in quick , lofty flight,
and how beautiful you seem way up there, far
from my always idiot heart!
Love me that way, flying over everything.
And, like the bird on its branch, land in my arms
only to rest,
then fly off again.
Be not like the romantic one who,
In love, set me on fire.
When you climb up my mansion,
enter so lightly, that as you enter
the dog on my heart will not bark. 

The Taxi

BY AMY LOWELL

When I go away from you

The world beats dead

Like a slackened drum.

I call out for you against the jutted stars   

And shout into the ridges of the wind.   

Streets coming fast,

One after the other,

Wedge you away from me,

And the lamps of the city prick my eyes

So that I can no longer see your face.

Why should I leave you,

To wound myself upon the sharp edges of the night?