Under the Leonids
A poem for the Uncommon Challenge
Until then, my best work yet: a boat, a love, the Leonids.
Quite beautiful as heartbreaks go, a near miss on a midnight
lake, with wishes dropping left and right. I laughed at that,
said take me back, and until then, I thought I meant
to shore. Nice story; camera fixed on Indian Point, boat exits
left 'neath fireworks, sponsored by the Galaxy, brought to you
by Tunnelvision. Cue piano, pretentious fin, but then
you – a star: hotter than those meteors, colder than those
miles of lake. I wrote you in, rough draft, known as
the man who loved this woman best, but take your bow;
you've been recast: the man who loved this woman last.
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How do you not have more love or comments for this gem of a poem?! I lingered and re-read the lines "...take me back, and until then, I thought I meant to shore..." I felt like I was watching one of those old-time movies where it is all silence and expression. You captured a rare moment in nostalgia because we all know it is never coming back. Congratulations on placing Runner Up in the Uncommon Challenge. ❤️'d and subscribed.