To Say What She Says
Oct 13th, 2009 | By R Jay Slais | Category: Poetry | 380 viewsAfter reading my poem, she says she likes it,
but she almost always says that.
Yet, once in a while she will say
she doesn’t understand what the poem is about.
I rarely let on, as it is up to each person
to determine the meanings they see in the words.
I only tell her she is biased but you have to wonder
if she is translating it first into her native tongue,
seeing the words and the structures differently,
being taken back to that place and time in the past,
the place with many meanings I can’t understand,
how she might have seen them back there
like the times her old man back-fisted her mouth
whenever she might have stated her view
because that is acceptable, just part of their culture.
I decided not to make her listen
to any more of my work today.
Instead, without a word, I hold her in my arms
for a moment and wonder to myself
if she really does enjoy being here with me.
Looking up into my eyes, she says she likes it.
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About R Jay Slais: Some of R Jay Slais’ recent publications include poems at Barnwood, MiPOesias, Oranges & Sardines, The Pedestal Magazine , The Rose & Thorn, and Twisted Tongue. A single father raising his two teenagers, he fell in love with poetry and himself on the same day. He writes from his home in Romeo Michigan while working as an engineer/inventor for a Metro Detroit automotive industry supplier. |
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Lovely poem . . .
Thanks Susy… but you are biased.
Glad you “like it”!
Smiles and hugs!!
The Greatest Poetry for Any Woman to Ever interpret, Will Always Be Found in the Loving Embrace of the One She Desires to Be Near! This Poem was so Sweetest day!
Many thanks Karma my friend, appreciate the read and your poetic response.
Peace and love!
Oh I thoroughly enjoyed this one, don’t know how I missed it when it first posted. Congratulations.
I’m wondering if you caught my own work, in similar vein, that appeared in T21 in September:
http://www.troubadour21.com/dellfarmer/the-way-she-asks/