Kathryn Collins Poet Free verse

Love Affair

Like an innocent ringlet
the corkscrew opened up
her world of tedium
to a heaven, to an intensity
of the stars she had not seen
before.

She clung madly to bliss,
devoured her bottleful
with so baffling a love,
the woman was swallowed
into fractured pieces
of fume

©Kathryn McLoughlin Collins
December 5, 2012

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Debbie Duncan January 20, 2013 at 10:34 AM Nice one Kathryn ;}

Matthew Anish January 4, 2013 at 10:50 AM Did you expect "bliss" to last forever? I think you should continue to write on such matters as this is stimulating. Peace & Love Matthew Anish

Keith Bickerstaffe December 20, 2012 at 12:54 PM The perfect title for the relationship of a woman to her poison of choice. Likening a corkscrew to a ringlet is sheer brilliance! Marvelous alliteration in your second verse... in that verse you used four double consonant words... a technique used by Sylvia Plath. BRAVO Kathryn!! Love Keith

Jon A Cavanaugh December 14, 2012 at 8:02 AM A gripping and all consuming poem here. Love the last stanza. Very telling. Great write.

Tim Ryerson December 10, 2012 at 5:58 PM Gripping description of addiction (?) Kathryn...wonderful, just wonderful - Tim

Susan Palli December 9, 2012 at 1:49 PM excellent write!

Jack Horne December 9, 2012 at 7:05 AM love this clever write, Kathryn

Holly Moore December 9, 2012 at 2:44 AM Very beautiful piece..I really enjoyed it. Thanks for all your comments on my page. I hate the 5 steps too. SM you...Hugs, Holly

Kash Poet December 9, 2012 at 2:33 AM Love this Kathy!A love affair indeed.Very nice free verse poem.

Elizabeth Wesley December 8, 2012 at 6:39 PM I couldn't resist the title and you shook me up with the message. A brilliant statement of a bad habit. Luv, Lizzie

David Williams December 8, 2012 at 12:19 PM Kathy, wonderful metaphors, teriffic image that just keeps going from start to end, very well done...David

Andrea Dietrich December 7, 2012 at 11:04 PM another one I recall of yours. You are very good at free verse writing and doing short ones that are always so interesting!

Terry O'Leary December 7, 2012 at 2:33 PM It often ends that way... nice sad poem... Terry

Sara Kendrick December 7, 2012 at 12:45 PM This is a great metaphoric work..Very defining of affair..Enjoyed reading this afternoon..Thanks for stopping by..Sara

Debbie Guzzi December 5, 2012 at 3:55 PM Wow what a bang up ending! those bottles do do strange things to us? Light & Love