A Reason To Return Poem by Susan Lacovara

A Reason To Return

Rating: 5.0


Did I forget my wrap,
draped over the winged back chair
in the room where you wrestled me
pinning me to your attention

Did you locate my lone silver earring
lost in the tangled sheets of lovemaking
still glistening, in the ambers of yesterday's fever

Could I come back for the silk stocking
I haphazardly tossed, like a bride's bouquet,
landing, to lace the shower curtain rod
dripping in steamy condensation...

Might you have located the left behind promise
we made to each other, their in the breathless hours
If so...Let me know
when I might come retrieve all forgotten
and grant me a reason to return

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
(11/06/13) everyone's guilty of leaving a souvenirs behind in the lover's vault.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM

Saturated with sensuality that ripples into a river of repeat.

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Anthony Burkett 31 January 2014

wow! ... what a wonderful emotional exaltation... a plea for the return of things that were forgotten and left behind...

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James Timothy Jarrett 03 February 2014

Great write. It is packed with emotion.

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Guillermo Veloso 03 March 2014

wonderful write, a lone earring lost in tangled sheets! ! love the imagery! I love this theme..please see Right of Return and see what you think.

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Kee Thampi 07 November 2013

Might you have located the left behind promise we made to each other, their in the breathless hours If so...Let me know Really good to read nice soul to express

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Khairul Ahsan 03 December 2022

Love the intense feelings expressed so eloquently in the poem, sensuality included.

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Dr Dillip K Swain 03 December 2022

I find the substance in the last line, '...and grant me a reason to return '

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LeeAnn Azzopardi 03 December 2022

Excellemt piece my poet in arms Bravo! ! ! ! !

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Ellen Shaw 14 March 2016

wonderful poem A mix of moments of freedom and then a moment of uncertainty. Or perhaps there is less uncertainty and more of a woman who laid the foundations to go after what she wants.

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Daniel Brick 03 June 2014

This is the AFTER section of a BEFORE/AFTER poem with the BEFORE section subsumed in the body of the poem. The poem is necessarily intense but never shrill or obvious. That's important because you are addressing the issue of contemporary sexuality in which new freedoms lead to new complications. It's really contained in the word PROMISES: What promises, if any, come from physical intimacy? What do we do about feelings which are not dispelled by an intimate encounter but increased by it? How do we exercise our new freedoms humanely? So many questions raised by this sensitive, hones, even harrowing poem. It's remarkable!

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