The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Thu 8/24/06)

[RetroLounge]

Sonnet XI

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

Pablo Neruda

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RL

If you have a request for a certain Poet, post their name in the thread and I will find a poem by them and post it...

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Now there's a poem to start the day right!

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

Is this what unbridled lust looks like?

This burns right through me........

He was so damn eloquent!

Thank you.......

:9

[Callalily]

2. Very sensual . . .

very physical . . .

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

Yes, pacing . . . ahem

Nice selection RL

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

8. ...

:hi:

RL

[miss_american_pie]

3. Kick

Since I won't be able to do that for a while. :hi:

[RetroLounge]

4. Thanks for the kick...

Talk to you in a week. Good luck...

RL

[SeattleGirl]

5. Excellent choice, RL

:hug:

[wildhorses]

6. dayum!! that is one FIERCE poem, dude!!

:hi: I was wondering if every once in awhile would you mind to throw in a "classic" like the oldies we studied in Lit classes? It would be interesting (I think, anyways) to see what the Lounge has to say about them :shrug:

[RetroLounge]

7. Can do...

:hi:

RL