GRAVITY • by Kristy Stops

Your eyes flicker towards an eccentric pedestrian,
but I watch you.
Read the fines lines forming around your eyes
like a simple answer to a complex question.

I call you gravity,
But you make me drop metaphors like yesterday’s news.

So I say you are like…..

But all I can think of is that thing you do with your eyebrows.
The night I met you,
well dressed and overheated.
The way you say “I love you”,
like you’re a pioneer of the process.
Then I try to quote love songs,
but all I hear
is your breath cycling endlessly
through the minutes I’ve filled with you.

Inhale
            Exhale
Inhale
            Exhale
Inhale

Until I’m lost in the rhythm of us.

Kristy Stops  lives in Vancouver, Canada with her husband and two cats. She likes poetry slams, cheap drinks and concerts. Her main influences are beat poets, Byron, and good music.

Posted on March 12, 2009 in Poems
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8 Responses to “GRAVITY • by Kristy Stops”


  1. Anne Brooke Says:
    March 12th, 2009 at 1:32 am

    Enjoyed this one – it brought me up short and made me think. Very arresting. And always good to see another Byron fan of course.

    :) )

    Axxx

  2. Oonah V Joslin Says:
    March 12th, 2009 at 5:10 am

    I call you gravity,
    But you make me drop metaphors like yesterday’s news.

    I loved those two lines – that contreast between down to earth and raised awareness is just magical to me and I adored the ending, as you know.

  3. Kathleen Cassen Mickelson Says:
    March 12th, 2009 at 5:30 am

    I love the structure of this piece! This really works on the page, but I would love to hear you read this aloud. Nice work.

  4. Amy Corbin Says:
    March 12th, 2009 at 6:59 am

    I’m with Kathleen. I’d like to hear it read aloud also.

  5. dj barber Says:
    March 12th, 2009 at 7:51 am

    Very well done.
    –dj

  6. sjhigbee Says:
    March 12th, 2009 at 2:21 pm

    Surprising and original – which is an achievement with a love poem. I very much enjoyed it.

  7. Rumjhum Says:
    March 12th, 2009 at 7:27 pm

    From the first line right down to the very last, I was captured; captivated! Great poem! :-)

  8. kristy stops Says:
    March 18th, 2009 at 10:27 pm

    Thanks for your lovely comments, they are so encouraging! Sorry I didn’t reply before, but I was away and totally missed this! I just saw that it was posted today :)

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