[L.E. Leone's intrepid Dating Poems series continues!]
KRYSTIAN
The night
I almost broke
your arm coming
and you said after
catching our breath I
was so sexy? . . .
Did you mean it?
Because
you know yours
wouldn’t have been
the first
arm that I broke
Truly,
MORGAN
So, OK, so you couldn’t make it
to my reading because you had a date
with your other lover, but your heart
will be with me? [look up from podium &
around the room for a while]
I don’t see it, I’m happy
to say. Dismemberment
unnerves me.
L.E. Leone
© 2010
John! 2 good disarming poems!
ReplyDeleteI missed the first installment for some reason but was so captivated by installment #2 that I went back in search of it - and happily found it.
ReplyDeleteHi Tony & Alan: Glad you both like LE's poems--thanks for stopping by!
ReplyDeleteHeh-heh. These two are nice paired arm in arm! :):):)
ReplyDelete"Dismemberment unnerves me."
ReplyDeleteLove this line! I'll be going in search of Dating Poems #1.
Hi Willow & Nana Jo
ReplyDeleteWillow: So to speak! Good one.
Nana Jo: So glad you liked them. You can find other poems by LE Leone by searching the label "LE Poems"
Love the first one especially! And what a great idea for series.
ReplyDeleteHi K: Glad you're liking LE's poems!
ReplyDeleteI also liked the line "Dismemberment unnerves me." A nice combination of eerie and matter-of-fact. And then coupled with the other poem, and its similar calm, polite tone and underlying sense of violence; pretty effective.
ReplyDeleteHi HKatz: Glad you enjoyed LE's poems! I think you're right about the polite tone mixed with violence!
ReplyDeleteFun and funny, both! Thanks for continuing to post L.E.'s poems.
ReplyDeleteI, too, had missed the first installment, so I went back to find it, and now I can't stop giggling over "Our third date, like the
ReplyDeletesecond, will be our last,
but thank you, Charlie,
for the rose, the hamburger,
and all that time
to chew." I'll have to re-read the lot later.
Wow. Krystian. Wow!!
ReplyDeleteWow.
Sadly, it's the "Morgan" poem I can relate to the best. I wish it were the "Krystian", but I've never been that forceful. Although...
ReplyDeleteKat
Hi Kat & Reya
ReplyDeleteReya: Yeah, I was wondering about that myself!
Kat: Perhaps you & L.E. should compare notes!