Dirty Words

Posted by Ewan on March 29, 2009 - 07:07
from the ABC set The Long and the Short of It...

what you whispered in
my ear, hot as summer, you
don't say in public

what you wrote on the
misted night-bus window shocked
my finer instincts

what you sent me in
that e-mail burned my heart with
its unjust flaming

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Comments

Very, very good; as in Dynamaso's 'Too Much Detail', short, sharp; the whole canvas covered with very little waste of paint! Nice one!

Chris

Excellent poem, this. As Chris said, "short, sharp" and not a word wasted.

Well done, Ewan. I like a man of few words;-)

Tina

Small, but exquisitely formed :-) atb L