Different Forms Of Love

Illustration by Olivera Neskovic

I was always an avid reader and writer, but in recent years I discovered a real love for the classics–Wilde, Austen, Du Maurier, Fitzgerald, and my favourite poet among all poets, Keats. I can appreciate contemporary poets and novelists, but there’s some kind of magic in the old way of writing that can’t be replicated. There began a tug of war in my mind between the classics and contemporary styles–I would sit to fabricate a poem and my voice was lost. Nobody wanted those flowery, melodramatic phrases of the 19th century anymore, but it was what I wanted to create. I tried to become a contemporary, realist writer but it felt so forced for a while; so wooden. My work attempts to combine the two forms; a modern, millennial take on Romanticism. These three poems delve into the trials and tribulations of love in various facets of life–the rocky, confusing love stories we have with others, the loves we let go and the tumultuous, challenging course of self-love. 

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Submitted by Serena Nudo.