Subversive - A Collection of Poetry - 3. Without Rhyme or Reason

This is such a sad, difficult poem. It is all the more so for being quite true for many. Unquestionably, the great pain of falling out of love can be assuaged chemically, and you present that to the reader in stark words. I liked the use of the word 'mudge.'

Your poem is something to read a lot of times, to get every line. It remembers me on the last vers from  Rilkes "Einsamkeit"

Einsamkeit

"...und wenn die Menschen, die einander hassen,
in einem Bett zusammen schlafen müssen:
dann geht die Einsamkeit mit den Flüssen... "

Loneliness

"...and if people, who hate each other,

have to share the same bed,

loneliness flows with the river...."

On 12/4/2017 at 6:02 PM, Parker Owens said:

This is such a sad, difficult poem. It is all the more so for being quite true for many. Unquestionably, the great pain of falling out of love can be assuaged chemically, and you present that to the reader in stark words. I liked the use of the word 'mudge.'

Thank you for reading. I agree that process of falling out of love is just as tedious and inversely joyous as the process of falling in love. And both of them take place rather silently.

On 13/4/2017 at 2:39 AM, Lyssa said:

Your poem is something to read a lot of times, to get every line. It remembers me on the last vers from  Rilkes "Einsamkeit"

Einsamkeit

"...und wenn die Menschen, die einander hassen,
in einem Bett zusammen schlafen müssen:
dann geht die Einsamkeit mit den Flüssen... "

Loneliness

"...and if people, who hate each other,

have to share the same bed,

loneliness flows with the river...."

Thank you Lyssa. You rekindled the joy and depth of consciousness of reading Rilke. About 15 years ago when I first started writing, I was directed to the famous letters of Rilke by a veteran poet. Thereafter, I read a lot of his poetry, all in translation of course, and I don't remember most of it. This was just before I got a personal computer and was in the dial up era of India. So, I got them from a library & devoured them speedily. I now understand that even though the words made sense, the true dawning of meaning was not appreciable then. Now, when I read Rilke I get an all together different reading. Perhaps when I will be even more matured, I shall find more subtle nuances out of the words. That I think is one of the greatest magic of poetry. 

My grandmother always told me: You have to read Goethes "Faust" three times in your life.  Each time it will be a different book.  

17 minutes ago, Lyssa said:

My grandmother always told me: You have to read Goethes "Faust" three times in your life.  Each time it will be a different book.  

I will definitely try once at least.

Reminds me, sadly, that many LGBT people have resorted to companionship in the bottle. Thanks for teaching me what mudge means - there's a queer film called The Mudge Boy but I never knew what that part of the title meant   

23 hours ago, AC Benus said:

Reminds me, sadly, that many LGBT people have resorted to companionship in the bottle. Thanks for teaching me what mudge means - there's a queer film called The Mudge Boy but I never knew what that part of the title meant   

So very true. The LGBT perspective gave me a new point of view. I was thinking about sad-married-straight-modern age-couples who drift further apart every day. Thank you for reading.