The Lovers Make Their Way Home Poem by Dónall Dempsey

The Lovers Make Their Way Home

Rating: 5.0


And the air
solidified around us

encased us as if we were
specimens

wrapped up in the cotton wool
of this dense fog.

We stood still
& let the night examine us.

You could see
the darkness thinking:

“Well, what have we got here? ”

“Humans? Your typical lovers! ”

“You can see how they are
joined at the heart

share the same mind

& see
(no...don’t touch it!)

...the same soul! ”

The darkness speaking knowingly
like a surgeon to his students.

The fog
released us

& we continued on
leaving this examination behind us.

Your hair flailing
the night air

stars stuck in branches

frightened

us searching for
A tiny window
that glowed with human warmth

our candle
frail & fragile

like an old ghost

looking out the window
for us

the dog recognizing our feet
hysterically greeting us

we the lovers
elated

having found
our way
home.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
alice sunderland 29 October 2007

excellence donall! loadsa beautiful lines. great story!

0 0 Reply
Gina Pisapia 28 October 2007

You sure do come with some of the most unique ways of exploring a love poem! An examination by the darkness whilst stranded in a fog...I don't know where you get them from! I love the whole atmospherics and how that ordinary walk is transformed into this beautiful poem. Only you I think could see it like that and now that you have wrote it and I have read...I now see it like that! You have a way of stretching my vision and compelling me to see as you see! Wonderfull! love GinaXXX

0 0 Reply
READ THIS POEM IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Dónall Dempsey

Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.
Close
Error Success