Sitting on a Cliff Taking a Selfie

[CalebMurdock]

Sitting on a Cliff Taking a Selfie

[Michael (MV)]

Hi Caleb,

Upon a 1st read, I am experiencing vertigo
It's almost 3am -

I should retire for now

Michael (MV)

[BobBradshaw]

Good poem! It’s different and it never crosses the line of either melodrama or self pity.

I like the ending, but why Millay? Wikipedia just told me she died falling down a staircase after suffering a heart attack.

[CalebMurdock]

Well, because those were her lines:

Yet many a man is making friends with death,
even as I speak, for lack of love alone.

That's what I was doing: Putting myself in a dangerous position hoping the handsome man next to me would be impressed.

Pleading to Millay (one of the "poetry gods") to save me was just a way I found to end the poem. How she died wasn't in my thoughts.

(Millay was an interesting character. Like Joni Mitchell, she was into romance. Her husband tolerated her having affairs with other men during their marriage.)

I posted this poem because I never thought it was any good, so I really do need feedback. That you seem to like it makes me feel great.

[BobBradshaw]

Thanks for the explanation

[CalebMurdock]

Yes, that's what I was thinking: Appealing to the "Poetry Gods".

Thanks again!