03-19-2022, 05:18 AM
(03-19-2022, 04:20 AM)busker Wrote: Only loveI feel like the poem would read stronger if you struck "only" everywhere but in the title. There's a cliche feel to repeating "only love" that somehow gets a pass when it's in the title. Plus the title implies the "only" to the rest of the piece.
There is only love
and those against it,
through the ages. Only love,
and an autumnal memory
like trees in microburbs
soaring towards the moon;
only love, and the cry
of Achilles, through the ages.

