The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Wed 9/13/06)

[RetroLounge]

First Poem for You

I like to touch your tattoos in complete
darkness, when I can’t see them. I'm sure of
where they are, know by heart the neat
lines of lightning pulsing just above
your nipple, can find, as if by instinct, the blue
swirls of water on your shoulder where a serpent
twists, facing a dragon. When I pull you
to me, taking you until we're spent
and quiet on the sheets, I love to kiss
the pictures in your skin. They'll last until
you’re seared to ashes; whatever persists
or turns to pain between us, they will still
be there. Such permanence is terrifying.
So I touch them in the dark; but touch them, trying.

Kim Addonizio

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RL

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[wildhorses]

1. and in the touching

perhaps I may find
permanence
not quite so
terrifying....

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

2. ...

Good Morning my friend. How are you?

:hi:

RL

[wildhorses]

3. doing very well, actually....

:hi: I am living proof that there is live after divorce...

hang in there RL, your day is coming!!:hug:

I can feel it in my bones:P

[Callalily]

4. To know someone

so intimately. To be able to touch in the dark, but yet know what's there . . . ahhhhhh . . . true love . . . true commitment . . . true knowing. How wonderful to be in that place.

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear RetroLounge........

Wow, how quietly sensual this one is.......

It speaks to me, so much........

...When I pull you
to me, taking you until we're spent
and quiet on the sheets...

This little phrase really gets to me.........so evocative, so erotic, but gently so.....

I can see me there, in his embrace....

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

[miss_american_pie]

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

7. ...

:hi:

:loveya:

RL

[redqueen]

8. Oh I love this:

"whatever persists
or turns to pain between us, they will still
be there"

*sigh*

[RetroLounge]

9. Yeah, Sigh is right...

:hi:

RL