I haven't read poetry in years due to living a busy life, school, socials, altered reading preferences. I felt it was high time I got back to it, maybe even get back to writing poetry for fun. Eventually. Baby steps.
So why post about the poems I read? Well, to quote the fabulous Lizzo: "I do it for the culture, goddamn."
I won't really post a poem every single day, just the ones that speak to me. The post title is a reference to one of my favorite feel-good dramas about a poem-loving, onion-skinned physical therapist and her romance with the "poker-faced" rehab doctor. IYKYK.
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The first poem I'm going to share is, as the title suggests, about vows, specifically romantic vows. I feel the last two verses succinctly puts into words my feelings about relationships that are on its last legs. The couple is fighting together to keep their relationship going, but more often they fight each other. Distrust abounds and they guard their hearts against the other. As Miss Cambridge beautifully articulates: is love still there?
P.S. I guess this is my comeback blog post?
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Vow
By Ada Cambridge
Nay, ask me not. I would not dare pretend
To constant passion and a life-long trust.
They will desert thee, if indeed they must.
How can we guess what Destiny will send -
Smiles of fair fortune, or black storms to rend
What even now is shaken by a gust?
The fire will burn, or it will die in dust.
We cannot tell until the final end.
And never vow was forged that could confine
Aught but the body of the thing whereon
Its pledge was stamped. The inner soul divine,
That thinks of going, is already gone.
When faith and love need bolts upon the door,
Faith is not faith, and love abides no more.
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