Like Rilke says, \u201cDon\u2019t write about love!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I write about not writing about love.
While I\u2019m at it may I say, some days
I think Tina\u2019s got it: fraught
though her pronouncement may be,
that love has nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My friend said, \u201cBut didn\u2019t you say
that love was life\u2019s answer?\u201d
I deny it, I replied (but maybe lied,
trying diligently not to
write about love?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cToo trite\u201d Rilke said,
to write about love and besides,
those way above you
have occupied the field and wield
far greater talents than you;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
a shame to waste the space
and reader\u2019s time
with your puerile words
and absurd thoughts
about love, he implied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(I lied. I write about love.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like Rilke says, \u201cDon\u2019t write about love!\u201d So I write about not writing about love.While I\u2019m at it may I say, some daysI think Tina\u2019s got it: fraughtthough her pronouncement may be,that love has nothing to do with it. My friend said, \u201cBut didn\u2019t you saythat love was life\u2019s answer?\u201dI deny it, I replied (but … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-11F","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3948,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions\/3948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Ann Grogan is a joyful octogenarian, pianophile, and retired lawyer living in San Francisco, CA. Her writing promotes the unequivocal permission to pursue one\u2019s passions at any age, especially music. Her poems have appeared in Rue Scribe, Querencia, Amethyst Review, Whims of the Wilderness, The Prairie Review, New Verse News, Dissident Voice, and Writers Resist, among others. She was named a semifinalist for The Writing Salon\u2019s 2025 Jane Underwood Poetry Prize and for Leftie Blondie\u2019s chapbook competition. Find her at rhapsodydmb.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"