Four Small Poems Entitled 'Love'
Created | Updated Jun 17, 2005
In a dark and smoke-weary cafe, at an indecently late hour, in the unanticipated company of worn-out literary rebels, defeated bohemian anarchists, leftover flower children and other unseemly if not unlikely malcontents, a gauntlet is thrown down: compose four ten-syllable poems entitled 'Love', each touching on one of the four elements — earth, air, fire and water. The wanderer's response to the challenge is here...
(air) - - - - - - - - - - - -
I would
give up
my share
of air
for
you
(fire) - - - - - - - - - - - -
love is sometimes like
rust just slow cool fire
(water) - - - - - - - - - - - -
inside me
is your retreat
to the sea
(earth) - - - - - - - - - - - -
where rock begins
and footprints end
— I wait
