And now for our prompt (optional, as always). K. Siva Reddy’s poem, “A Love Song Between Two Generations,” weaves together repetitions, questions, and unexpected similes with plain language. The overall effect is both intimate and emotional, producing a long-form meditation on what love is, what it means, and how it acts. Today, we’d like you to write your own poem that muses on love, but isn’t a traditional love poem in the sense of expressing love between romantic partners.
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I love this, Aarti! It's like an artful response to K. Eva Reddy's poem (which I also thoroughly enjoyed). I love the analogy of a Venn diagram with partners. Great work!
ReplyDeleteThank you Sunra :)
DeleteAarti! Raw and unflinching because this refuses the easy version of love [just like the prompt demands!] and digs into the harder truth of silence, distance, and self-knowledge. That Venn diagram image is brilliant; it gives the poem both its shape and its sting.
ReplyDeleteCheers Oizys.
DeleteYou ask, "I am all love,
ReplyDeleteRight?"
Yes. Oh yes you are. It comes through in your gorgeous poetry. Can't be helped--or hidden. Right?
Awww! Elizabeth--that's such a gorgeous comment. Thank you.
DeleteGreat title, Arti, and a unique exploration of a relationship from both sides. I especially love the idea of love as a Venn diagram and the lines:
ReplyDelete‘Or could it be the line
that carves out two circles out of many universes
and places them next to each other
Perfectly
not smothering or othering
just the right amount of oblong
not big, not showy—
maybe, this is love’.
Thank you Kim :)
DeleteHari Om
ReplyDeleteLove is a many-splendoured thing, or so I've read. Here you explore that from a different angle and with a good deal of success! YAM xx
Thank you Yamini :)
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