- Non-Erotic Poetry
- Inheritance
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Click hereBeautiful grandmother,
how could I not wish
you to greet
that poet who so praised
your slim figure, your bright eyes?
Grandfather
was a steady man, but not
imaginative. So if my lineage is finally corrupt,
think
that this is why I am not after your money,
why I vainly comfort my mother
with long cursive letters written from Spain.
- COMMENTS
todski28about 10 years agoHas had me puzzling since it was posted it is a clear 5,
I feel in the story lineation that the narrator may have gone to meet his biological grandfather after his perceived grandfather had passed away, to meet him and discover his real origins but there is a communication break down and the biological grandfather thinks the "n" is just after what he can get. He is trying to console his mother who has just found out that her percieved father is not really her father. Very confusing story line that you have managed to convey in minimal lines.
buttersabout 10 years agocould it be meant to symbolise 'the wrong side of the fence', not from where one should be, born out of wedlock....?
buttersabout 10 years agoit is said by some we are met by those who love us best when we die and move on...
the grandmother's passed on, and the N doesn't feel they should deny her a 'future' where she meets not the staid, unimaginative grandfather passed on before (bloodline as claimed) but the man who expressed his 'love' for her in poetry - words, perhaps, this N has found in old letters they're sorting through whilst clearing effects. And because of this doubt in their heritage, the N doesn't want money, but writes beautiful things to their mother as some attempt to comfort - I'm guessing the N is, also, a poet.
i found the use of 'cursive' quite interesting, though; makes me wonder if the claims of 'bastard' against the N's mother are being sounded (not just the private suppositions of the N) in order to disinherit her and so the letters from spain use 'cursive' here with a double meaning - the N speaking badly of the grandmother in letters to their mother (i feel this has to be a male N, with bloodlines and their implications on surnames) even though they kind of hope she meets her true love.
does 'letters from spain' carry some other meaning, like perhaps a billet-doux/french letter kind of affair?
HarryHillabout 10 years agois not his (or hers) grandfathers child the rest makes perfect sense in that context. Interesting work
twelveooneabout 10 years agoenjambment? not quite sure if that is the correct term, works. Now the last two lines are a bit enigmatic, however, one reading=wicked
5ed of course.
