Bubble

Bubble

by Michael R. Burch

................Love

...........fragile elusive

.......if held...too closely

....cannot.........withstand

..the inter..............ruption

of its.........................bright

..unmalleable...........tension

....and breaks disintegrates 

......at the........touch of

.........an undiscerning

................hand.

I believe this is my only shape/shaped/concrete poem. Keywords/Tags: Love, shape, shaped, concrete, form, rhyme, relationship, fragility, fragment, touch, cruelty, brutality, abuse, stress

Reviews

[Chris Shaw]

Love can be as fragile as that bubble if not handled with care. I have never tried a shape poem. They are are eye catching. Very creative.

Chris

[Michael R. Burch]

That's the only shape poem I have written, and I've been published over 5,000 times. I'm still not sure why I did it ...