L’Amour: The Sonnet Rimbaud Would Have Written If He Had Demon Possessed Paul Verlaine
It’s less than breaths of shadows from a ghost.
It’s farther than the farthest seashore of
The most remote black planet. It’s the most
Sought after of the hopes of women. Love.
It is the panting of the unicorn
Who cannot find the Virgin. It’s the heart
That thought itself immortal and could scorn
The phoenix’s ashes. Love pits the heart
Against an absent, lacking, fabled beast
That never stepped except in human dreams.
It is a Romeo who never ceased,
A bridal gown of laughter missing seams.
..It is the search that bumbling ages fail.
….It’s non-existent Galahad’s blank Grail.
by phillipw | Jan 19, 2020 | LO, RI |