Poems as Icebreakers - March 26, 2025

Gary Hunter

Mar 26, 2025

1 min read

I lay down a love poem and

you, the reader, aren’t in that space

or I write something funny

and you’re in no mood to laugh

I think about that a lot

how in poetry we pass like strangers

instead of stopping to split

the empathy of dialogue

with the emotion of two faces

I’m not even sure this is a poem

but a confession of frustration

unable to meet under a warm sun

I try to write poems like icebreakers

Hi, great to meet you and do you think

this is another thing we have in common?

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