[ellis]

I KNEW IT!!! I love it!!

[dentrassi]

You should see the reaction when DH reads it at poetry readings!!!!!

[Lamorgan]

I've had a brief reunion with an old friend... brought back memories.

First Love:


Moist kisses in damp woods

Stolen, secret embraces

Tight jeans in dark places

The taste of Kaluha and cigarettes

Smell of skin

Smiling in the dark



(I like to write raunchy poetry)

Lois

[ellis]

Lois, it's great! Keep them coming...
Umm, you didn't have sex, did you? What do you mean by "brief reunion"?

[Lamorgan]

Only in my mind.....




Lois

[ellis]

After The Last Dynasty
by Stanley Kunitz

Reading in Li Po
how "the peach blossom follows the water"
I keep thinking of you
because you were so much like
Chairman Mao,
naturally with the sex
transposed
and the figure slighter.
Loving you was a kind
of Chinese guerilla war.
Thanks to your lightfoot genius
no Eighth Route Army
kept its lines more fluid,
traveled with less baggage
so nibbled the advantage.
Even with your small bad heart
you made a dance of departures.
In the cold spring rains
when last you failed me
I had nothing left to spend
but a red crayon language
on the character of the enemy
to break appointments,
to fight us not
with his strength
but with his weakness,
to kill us
not with his health
but with his sickness.
Pet, spitfire, blue-eyed pony,
here is a new note
I want to pin on your door,
though I am ten years late
and you are nowhere:
Tell me,
are you still mistress of the valley,
what trophies drift downriver,
why did you keep me waiting?

[dentrassi]

I like that.

[squeaker]

Ok this has been stuck in my head and I think it would make a lovely poem.

For No One
(Lennon/McCartney)

Your day breaks, your mind aches
You find that all the words of kindness linger on
When she no longer needs you.

She wakes up, she makes up
She takes her time and doesn't feel she has to hurry
She no longer needs you.

And in her eyes you see nothing
No sign of love behind the tears
Cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years!

You want her, you need her
And yet you don't believe her when she said her love is dead
You think she needs you.

And in her eyes you see nothing
No sign of love behind the tears
Cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years!

You stay home, she goes out
She says that long ago she knew someone but now he's gone
She doesn't need him

Your day breaks, your mind aches
There will be time when all the things she said will fill your head
You won't forget her.

And in her eyes you see nothing
No sign of love behind the tears
Cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years!

[ellis]

Ah. I had to sing that... thanks, Squeak!

[Wanttolosealot]

What are you doing to me?
Why does my chest hurt so badly I can't breath?
I want to feel your love surround me,
wrap your loving arms around me.
Feel your warm gentle embrace,
and see the love grow across your face.

I want to hold you in my arms so tight,
Hold you there all through the night.
Smell your hair and touch your skin,
Feel my heart beat again.

But a love like that I just can't have
So I look to God up above
and ask her for the key,
there's nothing I can do she says
Because she is locked inside your love.

Just take away the pain I feel,
When I can not hold her near
Make the love go away
And dissipate the fear.

I can't do that she says
It's up to you my child
She whispers gently in my ear
In a voice so meak and mild.

It's you who must face your fears
And take whatever comes your way
I will stand quietly beside you
And guide you every day.

Do not stand idly by
And waste away the days
For life is much to precious
To give up and hide away.

My gift to you my dear sweet child
Is to love with all your heart,
Grab hold of life with all your strength
And never let it part.

by Virginia


To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott

[ellis]

Virginia, that is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for sharing it with us.

[barefootgrrrl]

Virginia - yes, it is really beautiful.

Thank you for sharing your heart, Terri

[Amarantha2]

"Through that window – all else being extinct
Except itself and me – I saw the struggle
Of darkness against darkness. Within the room
It turned and turned, dived downward. Then I saw
How order might – if chaos wished – become:
And saw the darkness crush upon itself,
Contracting powerfully; it was as if
It killed itself, slowly: and with much pain.
Pain. The scene was pain, and nothing but pain.
What else, when chaos draws all forces inward
To shape a single leaf? . . .

For the leaf came
Alone and shining in the empty room;
After a while the twig shot downward from it;
And from the twig a bough; and then the trunk,
Massive and coarse; and last the one black root.
The black root cracked the walls. Boughs burst
the window:
The great tree took possession.

Tree of trees!
Remember (when time comes) how chaos died
To shape the shining leaf. Then turn, have courage,
Wrap arms and roots together, be convulsed
With grief, and bring back chaos out of shape.
I will be watching then as I watch now.
I will praise darkness now, but then the leaf."

~ Conrad Aiken

[ellis]

Warning

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick the flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to spit.

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickle for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not to shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

by Jenny Joseph

[dentrassi]

Love that one Ellis!! my Mom has it posted on her refrigerator, and I tease her constantly so she'll actually LIVE it!!!