POEM STARTER
Write a poem that is grotesquely romantic.
This could mean a poem that’s overly lovey-dovey, one that has a romantic theme but grotesque imagery, or something else altogether.
Sweet as Spoiled Wine
Even your decay was divine to me—**sweet as spoiled wine. **My lips understood your polished collarbone better than any vow—tracing slow, scared, aching to be felt back.
Your ribs sang in splinters, and I hummed along with my teeth gnawing on your ghost. It didn’t hurt you, yet you bled. Laughing like a wound unstitched, wearing your dignity like perfume.
You smiled with bones.
Touched me in echoes—not with your hands, though.
I let you in where even I was not allowed.
Even your beauty was profane to me—**sweet as spoiled wine.** Wretched and ruinous.