Light & Dragonflies: Nature Poems/Love Poems - 19. The fist of silence

I should mention there are only two more poems after this one in the collection. After that, it's done

The first line was immediately descriptive: a withered bouquet of sun, a greying of love, the leaves and stems of delight turning brown and curling up.  You and Runge had me right there. 

Images of sadness, when someone is silenced.  There are time to be silent and times to speak, but in this is sounds like the silenced one has no choice.

On 1/8/2024 at 1:35 PM, Parker Owens said:

The first line was immediately descriptive: a withered bouquet of sun, a greying of love, the leaves and stems of delight turning brown and curling up.  You and Runge had me right there. 

Thanks, Parker. I think anyone rejected by a lover in public -- one afraid of being "exposed" -- knows what Runge is expressing here. That he does it in such an emotionally economical, and yet florid, way speaks to the poet's power as a wordsmith 

On 1/8/2024 at 2:36 PM, ReaderPaul said:

Images of sadness, when someone is silenced.  There are time to be silent and times to speak, but in this is sounds like the silenced one has no choice.

Thank you, ReaderPaul. I think you and I have much the same reading on this poem. It is sad when the one you love acts like he does not know you, or does not want you to "say too much" where others may hear and "get the wrong idea," when the wrong idea is the revelation that these two human beings mean more to one another than is permissible by society