Sunday Picnic

[jjhunter]

Sunday, every Sunday, let's have a community picnic. It's probably been a long week, and it's lovely to have a few minutes to sit back and relax and enjoy some good conversation in a less formal space. Feel free to bring something for the Picnic Basket - a poem you liked this week, a thought you had or something you experienced, or even something completely unrelated to poetry whatsoever that you just feel like sharing. Just take a moment to say hello, and maybe have a bite to eat; no one is going anywhere fast, and the shade promises some relief from the everyday heat. Let’s get to know each other a bit better, here under the branches of the poet’s tree.

Comments

[ashestosnow]

That sounds most unpleasant! I'm sorry to hear of your sickness.

Both of those poems are extremely powerful. I love how the ending of One-eyed is a revelation, no less impacting for the fact that you know the poem is building up to it.

The second could almost be an activist-romance poem, to my mind. Some loves are revolutionary, incendiary. I get the feeling that the tone is intended to be more negative, though; it works both ways, I think.

[raze]

It could be double-sided for those two, really; the series is a civil rights allegory, and they're a mixed species couple, and their relationship was born out of mutual experience with violence and oppression.