The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Wed 9/6/06)

[RetroLounge]

Feasting

I am so amazed to find myself kissing you
with such abandon,
filling myself with our kisses
astounding hunger for edges of lips and tongue.
Returning to feast again and again,
our bellies never overfilling from this banquet.
Returning in surprise,
in remembering,
in rediscovering,
such play of flavors of gliding lips
and forests of pressures and spaces.
The spaces between the branches
as delicious as finding the grove of lilies of the valley
blossoming just outside my door under the ancient oak.
"I've never held anyone this long," you said,
the second time you entered my kitchen.
I am the feast this kitchen was blessed to prepare
waiting for you to enter open mouthed in awe
in the mystery we've been given,
our holy feast.

Elizabeth W. Garber


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RL

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[wildhorses]

1. ...........

:blush:



that's a very NICE poem you got there

[BlueIris]

2. Retro...this was not the agony I was promised, dawg.

I feel so let down.

[RetroLounge]

4. It's a different sort of agony...

When it reminds one of what one used to have...

:cry:

RL

[BlueIris]

5. ...Oh.

Okay.

[RetroLounge]

6. I have all kinds of "agony" poems...

Will get to one tomorrow I hope.

:hi:

RL

[wildhorses]

7. .........

:hug:



























cute kids BTW:)

[miss_american_pie]

9. How about depression?

Demeter Mourning

Nothing can console me. You may bring silk
to make skin sigh, dispense yellow roses
in the manner of ripened dignitaries.
You can tell me repeatedly
I am unbearable (and I know this):
still, nothing turns the gold to corn,
nothing is sweet to the tooth crushing in.

I'll not ask for the impossible;
one learns to walk by walking.
In time I'll forget this empty brimming,
I may laugh again at
a bird, perhaps, chucking the nest—
but it will not be happiness,
for I have known that.

---Rita Dove

[RetroLounge]

10. Damn...

:hug:

RL

[miss_american_pie]

11. Thanks

:hug:

[Callalily]

3. Never underestimate

the power of kissing!

Very nice poem RL! Thanks.

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

12. Never indeed...

:hi:

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Good morning, my dear RetroLounge!

Oh wow, the power of kissing.........

This is just wonderful!

She describes soooooo perfectly how good it can be......

Thank you.......... :hug:

[RetroLounge]

13. The power of kissing...

makes my knees weak...

:hi:

RL

[lizziegrace]

14. Sigh

Very, very nice RL. :hug: