- Non-Erotic Poetry
- crossroads
Note: You can change font size, font face, and turn on dark mode by clicking the "A" icon tab in the Story Info Box.
You can temporarily switch back to a Classic Literotica® experience during our ongoing public Beta testing. Please consider leaving feedback on issues you experience or suggest improvements.
Click herethe rain breaks briefly
and birds return to feed--
"good sign" I tell myself,
still disbelieving
but suited for adventure,
zipped within my cheery aqua slicker,
I marvel at the regularity
of intervals between the tiny droplets,
how with precision they adorn
a sapling's slender branches
like shining lights in darkness on a holiday.
I step along the darkened roadway,
eyes cast down so not to miss
the twinkle from a single teardrop
in pools on tiny flecks of green,
this early, verdant leafing
(on what I'm told are weeds).
almost lost in contemplation--
rent with hope and sadness,
intersections past and future
composing unexpected crossroads,
almost lost,
but there she lies before me,
and bears her private invitation,
"pick me", so I do--
then smiling at this special moment,
I turn (literally) to march
into the ever greying darkness.
robins shudder as they stream
before my coming presence,
and overhead a startled hawk flies,
draws my eye...
then as I hasten homeward
a passing freight train rumbles
(really? let this only be is a train);
I pull my hood up
for what good it does me,
as my face absorbs the spray--
the downpour strikes just as I enter,
and once within,
I examine, dry and press
a weathered but still sturdy clover:
four ways unite in intersection,
past yields without regret her right of way.
- COMMENTS
I put a link to your poem in the poetry feedback and discussion thread and left s comment. The comment dissapeared as a lot of my comments have of late. Pobo is an abbreviation of poetry board. There is a poetry forum here with challenges, chat as well as inspiration and other poets.
/>
Copy and paste this into you browser and it should take you there. I sent you an e-mail to let you know as well :-)
There was no malicious intent or accusation here just my thoughts that every one should read this. Greenmountaineer also put in a recommend for laced in sad ribbons.
I put a link to your poem in the poetry feedback and discussion thread and left s comment. The comment dissapeared as a lot of my comments have of late. Pobo is an abbreviation of poetry board. There is a poetry forum here with challenges, chat as well as inspiration and other poets.
/>
Copy and paste this into you browser and it should take you there. I sent you an e-mail to let you know as well :-)
There was no malicious intent or accusation here just my thoughts that every one should read this. Greenmountaineer also put in a recommend for laced in sad ribbons.
I think Harry Hill was refering to the fact that someone (Todski) recommended this poem in the New Poetry Recommendations 'Sticky' (Go to Bulletin Board at the top of the 'Stories and Pics' page then 4th down Poetry Feedback and Discussion & then New Poetry Recommendations).
There on the last page (7) it is. Why it is called a Sticky I have no idea & why Todski called it Pobo I do not know. The only reason I am saying all this rather than leaving it to Harry or Todski is that it could be less embarassing for everyone concerned coming from someone else (eg me)
Nice poem by the way. I liked it.
I was surprised to read this poem appeared elsewhere, and needed to google the reference to "Pobo Sticky", discovering another poet. I assure you, I wrote this poem from my own experience last Sunday, and had not read another poem of a similar nature previously.
It is amazing to me how sometimes the world around us can reflect our mood or thoughts and actually enhance and clarify them for us and you described that perfectly.
I am, for the most part, a poetic hacker but when I do produce something worthwhile it is usually a poem that tries to capture that intersection. You did it beautifully.