confessional

[paperleaves]

who knew that opening a can of peaches
could be so hard to do?
I remember
waking up beside your shadow in a mess of hair and sweaters
every sunday morning
to peach pancakes
and you in your sunday best-
slippers and pajamas.
I remember nipping your ear with my teeth
when we made love and
using you as a stress ball some nights, and
I may never know why you left me
but I'll always know
that on sunday mornings,on
those beautiful, antique sunday mornings
you loved me.

[Buh4Bee]

I really love the title. Light and lovely!

[~Sophia~]

I hope I inspired this title with my comment on your last poem! Another wonderful gift you've left for us!

[paperleaves]

you did, sophia! thank you! and also, I'm writing a paper connecting poets Sharon Olds (a wonderful confessional poet) and Robert Hayden and their stylistic devices in two of their most famous works, and I felt inspired :) sometimes I'm afraid to write like this, outside of my normal stream of consciousness style, but I've been experimenting with it a lot lately and I rather enjoy it.

and thank you jersea :) I'm not a huge fan of titles, so i like to keep them simple sometimes :P

[~Sophia~]

I hope you share your paper with us when you've completed it. I'd love to read it!

[paperleaves]

really?! Oh, that would be great. I'm really struggling with it, and I'd love feedback, so I'll let you know when I post it on my blog ^_^

[~Sophia~]

Thanks pl! I will have no valuable input I'm sure but, I'd love to learn from yours!

[blazeofglory]

This poem has something deep and something we cannot kind of fathom easily and we can understand actually only if we have gone thru that moment of rapture. In fact everything melts away and what remains or endures everything finally is the love we have for someone and not the squabble

[paperleaves]

blazeofglory, you put it so eloquently, and truthfully, I am blessed to have feedback such as yours. Thank you. :)

love
paper

[firefangled]

This is exquisite

I may never know why you left me
but I'll always know
that on sunday mornings,on
those beautiful, antique sunday mornings
you loved me.

[Buh4Bee]

Paper, I'd loved to see the poetry paper as well.

jersea

[paperleaves]

Thank you, firefangled..that was the most heartfelt part of the poem, I'm glad you picked it out! :)
and jersea, thank you as well :) I will definitely post this beast of a paper when I am finished!

love, in kindness,
Kate