Apparently April is Poetry Month

Apr 10, 2009 16:40


I heard this on NPR's Fresh Air a few days ago, and it caught my ear (and spirit):

Thousand Kisses Deep (Excerpt)You came to me this morning ( Read more... )

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On the topic of kissing voyeurprincess April 11 2009, 01:05:20 UTC
I was introduced to this about 3 years ago, and it still makes me swoony.

I wish very much that I could
hold your face in my two
hands and
kiss your mouth.
I am sure your kisses could feed me:
I could live on the
sustaining elegance of their touch.
A warmth and sweetness
would fill my mouth,
a wine of such eloquence,
no speech, no words would
dare to imitate.
Your mouth invites kisses
as honey in the comb
invites tasting:
as red, crisp apples
want biting;
as the cool, orange- yellow
of peach and nectarine
seek to be sipped, nipped,
licked and savored.
While the kisses of your mouth
could nourish me and my soul
for eons,
no measurable time
would pass through the
duration of their gift,
and lifetimes would endure while I
kissed your mouth
held between my two hands.

Jillian Bee

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Yay Leonard Cohen kayti23 April 11 2009, 01:20:30 UTC
Incidentally, I have a group writing project coming up that you will be invited to take part in, if you have interest and time. I'll let you know details when the date's a bit closer. :)

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Saw this and thought... gayathri April 14 2009, 22:53:06 UTC
Drunk as drunk on turpentine

From your open kisses,

Your wet body wedged

Between my wet body and the strake

Of our boat that is made of flowers,

Feasted, we guide it - our fingers

Like tallows adorned with yellow metal -

Over the sky's hot rim,

The day's last breath in our sails.

Pinned by the sun between solstice

And equinox, drowsy and tangled together

We drifted for months and woke

With the bitter taste of land on our lips,

Eyelids all sticky, and we longed for lime

And the sound of a rope

Lowering a bucket down its well. Then,

We came by night to the Fortunate Isles,

And lay like fish

Under the net of our kisses.

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Re: Saw this and thought... gayathri April 14 2009, 22:53:35 UTC
oops, that's Pablo Neruda.... translated by Christopher Logue

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