Poem #1 “For Your Love”:

In this poem, I only used words from the last two sentences of my chosen books (Candide and Nightwood) and last two lines from my chosen poems (Incubus, I Prize the Memory, 833). Since my overall framework discusses individuals losing their loved ones, I decided to choose words out of only two sentences from the end of a text, as a way to illuminate that during a loss of love, there are two lovers who reach the end of their relationship:

Eyes bloodshot, crying

A reservoir of tears

For your love

 

Passed upon your way

For your love

 

Roamed America

On foot

For your love

 

Your love,

A thrust of sword

Through the heart

 

We must give up,

You said.

Lost all your love

Expelled from your love

 

Lying here, crying

For your love

 

Poem #2 “Loss”:

Lastly, I created a freestyle poem as a way to end my creative piece signifying that once a person overcomes the pain from losing a loved one, a sensation of acceptance and happiness overcomes them. This sensation allows them to finally feel “free” instead of feeling confined in a cycle unbearable pain:

Your laugh echoes in my mind

Your touch lingers onto my skin

Your love was nothing but toxic flames

Burning up from within

 

The intoxication of your love

Has left me clinging on for more

Just as you surrendered and disappeared

Leaving my mind and heart to go to war

 

As I sit here and mourn

Over the absence of your beautiful body

I know one night this tragic voyage

Will finally allow me to breathe, to embody.