My love for you is more <br />athletic than a verb, <br />Agile as a star <br />The tents of sun absorb. <br /> <br />Treading circus tight ropes <br />Of each syllable, <br />The brazen jackanapes <br />Would fracture if he fell. <br /> <br />Acrobat of space <br />The daring adjective <br />Plunges for a phrase <br />Describing arcs of love. <br /> <br />Nimble as a noun, <br />He catabpults in air; <br />A planetary swoon <br />Could climax his career. <br /> <br />But adroit conjunction <br />Eloquently shall <br />Link to his lyric action <br />A periodic goal.<br /><br />Sylvia Plath<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/verbal-calisthenics/
