The Villain and the Hero...Two-for-two Tusdays

Poetics Aside prompt; Here are Paula’s prompts: Write a hero poem. Write a villain poem. 

 Vexing Villain

Some poems need no syllables

To distract or beguile

Darling, I shape you against me

In a faint, tender half-smile…

The poet dreams in perfect want

For that elusive word

Darling, I’ve borne the perfect taunt

In sudden passion stirred

As the air, obscure around us

Seethes with possibility

Darling, is it not ironic

That love’s perfect poetry…

…is not mouthed in verbal creations

Of bland inequity?

For Muse is a vexing villain

Of hope and insanity

But now we have trumped her ineptness

Though the silence may drive us wild

Love’s perfect poem, oh darling

Exists in a faint, half-smile

The Hero...

You do not come crashing in

on a black stead or verbose and vile

But darling, you persuade me

with nothing, but a faint half-smile

...across the room I see you

My hero; come, let's go home

Our eyes meet; the air is full

Of love's most perfect poem

© Janet Martin