“i never hit so hard in love / all i wanted was to break your walls / all you ever did was wreck me”

[larryhammer]

For Poetry Monday:

The Tryst, Christopher Morley

According to tradition
    The place where sweethearts meet
Is meadowland and hillside,
    And not the city street.
Love lingers when you say it
    By lake and moonlight glow:
The poets all O.K. it—
    It may be better so!

And yet I keep my trysting
    In the department stores;
I always wait for Emma
    At the revolving doors.
It might dismay the poets
    And yet it's wholly true—
My heart leaps when I know it's
    My Emma, pushing through!

It may be more romantic
    By brook or waterfall,
Yet better meet on pavement
    Than never meet at all;
I want no moon beguiling,
    No dark and bouldered shore,
When I see Emma smiling
    And twirling through the door!


Morley (1890-1957) was an American novelist, essayist, and poet (and co-founder of the Baker Street Irregulars), best known today for his first two novels, Parnassus on Wheels and The Haunted Bookshop, though a later novel, Kitty Foyle, was adapted as a movie that won Ginger Rodgers her Oscar.

---L.

Subject quote from Wrecking Ball, Miley Cyrus.