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Poetry
Into The Night
By amanda4uk
07 January 2007
I’m trudging along, driven and drenched,

driven by love and drenched from the storm,

thinking about the smirk on your face

as you walked off into the deep blue night.

The night was blue because it wasn’t yet black

and a couple of bats flew low around our heads.

I could smell the corn fields behind the house,

a fly was floating on the beer in my glass,

the beer was warm, you were cold, icy cold.

The dress you wore was your shortest and

slinkiest, molded to your skin like soft

warm wax, slowly dripping down to your

tiny, perfect, pointed feet. The features on your

face had got lost in the darkness, just a gentle

glow from your golden hair could be seen.

You told me you were going to a bar

in the city, with some people, to have a good time

and that I would never see your skin again.

I can’t let you go, it’s so close to midnight,

I must track you down and bring you back home.

I’m trudging along, driven and drenched,

driven by love and drenched from the storm.

Reviews

Written by Phil (6730 comments posted) 7th January 2007
I have to confess I struggled with this. Any piece that's ful of angst has to make the reader care to be effective, and this just didn't. I found the 'it's close to midnight' line interesting. This is obviously my personal reaction. Others may feel differently. 
 
Phil.

Written by Talisker (1326 comments posted) 7th January 2007
For me this is very humdrum - doesn't have the rawness of your other piece. 
 
From your name one imagines a homo-erotic element - jeez! am I the only straight poet hereabouts? :)  
 
I liked the wax dress bit - and the teeny weeny pointy feet - but otherwise a bit clumsy (for me). 
 
Oli :)

Written by Phil (6730 comments posted) 7th January 2007
Actually, I noticed the homo-erotic bit too, but didn't want to say anything just incase I'd imagined it.  
 
Only straight in the poet's village Oli? I think not.  
 
Phil.

Written by ellipinnock (1753 comments posted) 9th January 2007
Liked the beginning and the repeated couplet but you lost me completely in the middle... 
 
Elli

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