The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Wed 8/23/06)

[RetroLounge]

Kissing Again

Kissing again, after a long drought of not kissing--too many
kids, bills, windows
needing repair. Sex, yes, though squeezed in between the minor
depths of anger, despair--
standing up amid the laundry or fumbling onto the strip of rug
between the coffee table
and the couch. Quick, furtive, like birds, a dance on the wing,
but no time for kissing,
the luxuriant tonguing of another spongy tongue, the deft flicking
and feral sucking,
that prolonged lapping that makes a smooth stone of the brain.
To be lost in it,
your body tumbled in sea waves, no up or down, just salt
and the liquid swells
set in motion by the moon, by a tremor in Istanbul, the waft
of a moth wing
before it plows into a halo of light, a deep lustrous kiss that lasts
minutes, blossoms
into what feels like days, fields of tulips glossy with dew, low purple
clouds piling in
beneath the distant arch of a bridge. One after another they storm
your lips, each kiss
a caress, autonomous and alive, spilling into each other, streams
into creeks into rivers
that brunt and break upon the gorge. Let the tongue, in its wisdom,
release its stores,
let the mouth, tired of talking, relax into its meant shapes of give
and receive, its plush
swelling, its slick round reveling, its primal reminiscence that knows
only the one robust world.

Dorianne Laux


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RL

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[GirlinContempt]

1. Nice choice

[RetroLounge]

7. Yes, she continues to be a favoerite...

:hi:

RL

[WritingIsMyReligion]

2. Lovely.

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

11. Yes, i agree. Very lovely indeed.

:hi:

RL

[Callalily]

3. Yes RL!

That is definably the way kissing should be!

:hi: :hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Good morning, my dear RetroLounge..........

Ah yes.......this is what kisses should be like.........

To drown in a world of kisses.....

What heaven, what bliss is that..........

I can never have enough kisses.......ever.......


:hug:

[miss_american_pie]

5. Lovely

your body tumbled in sea waves, no up or down, just salt
and the liquid swells
set in motion by the moon

Too bad kissing can't be like that all the time. :hi:

[RetroLounge]

16. ...

:hi:

RL

[tigereye]

6. saved to read later!

that's really nice, Retro!

[idgiehkt]

8. no more sex, lol

this is agony. Why not some good ol depressing Sylvia Plath or Gwendolyn Brooks...these poems are driving me over the edge...

just kidding, very nice and good choice.

[RetroLounge]

9. I'm trying to stir up the passions in the lounge

not that we need any more, but why not, right?

:hi:

RL

[idgiehkt]

14. mine need to be stirred down...

how about "I sing of Olaf glad and big" by Cummings
or "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen, something thorougly hopeless and depressing that just makes you want to die, lol.

this here's a den of iniquity...


seriously though, you have exquisite taste in free verse, so keep up the good work. It does feel lately like this thread is being held in the back of a sex toy shop, lol.

[lizziegrace]

10. Nice RL

:hug:

[GOPisEvil]

12. Damn! I think I need a cigarette!

Or a cold shower!

:D

[lizziegrace]

13. yep

:rofl:

[SeattleGirl]

15. Now THAT is kissing!

*sigh*