trompe l'oeil

[~Sophia~]

trompe l'oeil
(when a door is not a door)

A faux love poem - nameless has no more
consequence than a door to a secret garden
painted on stone

enough detail to fool the eye but
you can’t step through

an escape pause. Blank verse - it loves you
or you and
you

allegedly
dedicated to the likeness of a certain someone
recycled - re-gifted - repeat as necessary
I hope to never be a “you” again

or a pseudo, alias, moniker or babe. Not
a sun(rise) or star, city, river or rivulet. No
ocean, horizon, moon, or the dreaded
interchangeable she. Not a field or
flower, bird, harlot, wife or
scarlet lover.

I’m not asking to be scratched into skin
but just once to be the real thing -
Bukowski’s Jane.

[breathtest]

Incredible, i never really know what to say when i read your complex poems, except that i think they are fantastic.

I love the lines 'you can't step through / an escape pause', and how the enjambement here does not allow a pause for the reader to 'escape' through. You have trapped us all in your poems...but i don't mind because i love them

[~Sophia~]

Thanks BT!
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I never thought

trapping
you in a poem

would
tickle me

LOL

[firefangled]

This seems painfully personal and is just exquisite for that.

The ending a knife in the heart.

Reading the following added to the understanding of your poem.

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/for-jane-with-all-the-love-i-had-which-was-not-e/

[paperleaves]

Oh my. You have done it again. I wish I was you so I could create art like this, so beautiful and flowing, from one idea to another, finishing with a wonderful line about one of my favorite poets...
I think you have stolen my poetic heart with this one!!!

[Buh4Bee]

I read Firefangle's link and it was tremendously helpful in reaching the deeper meaning of the poem. Lovely, lovely, I enjoyed this one. To be loved so true- it is painful when we are not.

[~Sophia~]

ready, aim FIRE.... it is and thanks fiirefangled. I was hoping anyone reading might link to that! Mwah!!!

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Hi paperleaves! I'm so very pleased you like it since I've loved and thought of many of your poems as heights to aspire to!!

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Thanks Jersea - love, you can't live... much like your Anais Nin quote!