Erminia
Please don't discount the fact that some poets like to write about the
collective as shared experiences/friendship/variations of point of view.
Here's one of my "we" poems.
The movie show
we gather in our sea of ritual
line up on days of rain or storm
slung from different shores
we reach across a foyer line
slip into questions
of a time we might have missed
like sisters we display
a love of theme and place
scuffles on the screen
no shoot-em-up, except for
naked guns in bedroom scenes
accents broadly talking Scottish
Birmingham or Gromit off the planet
Walters slipping glasses from her nose
Fiennes seductively patient in the sand
we look for sparkle
in the hemisphere of thermos journeys
bananas arching wings
sandwiches stuck on sticky paper
ice-cream dripping into popcorn
chewing one another’s ears
descending that inner theatre
we pad our feet like claws
stretch blindly along mid to middle row
giggling at opaque strangers fuming
too burdened and quick
Linda cools in white
Doris stalks in leopard pants
Julia flames a cherry grin
I slink in blue
we are dahlias under a cloudbank
of stares and shins—
shelving garden shoes
floured cake boards
outrun by darkness
we sink and offload mints
rattle lolly papers
goose-wing breasts
flutter in the movie show
as if we’ve never been
Helen Hagemann
>Erminia writes:
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> >Generally I deeply object (I said that elsewhere on Poetryetc) >to using
>the personal pronoun "we" in poetry.
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