The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sun 9/17/06)

[RetroLounge]

Hello Everyone!

I'm back from Minneapolis with 2 trucks full of books. So far 1-and-a-half trucks are unloaded. Anyone wanna rub my aching back? :D

Thanks to the wonderful miss_american_pie for posting Saturday's poem and a fine choice it was, Too! :hug: :loveya:

RL

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Dearest, I never knew such loving. There
in that glass tower in the alien city, alone,
we found what somewhere I had always known
exists and must exist, this fervent care,
this lust of tenderness. Two were aware
how in hot seizure, bone pressed to bone
and liquid flesh to flesh, each separate moan
was pleasure, yes, but most in the other's share.

Companions and discoverers, equal and free,
so deep in love we adventured and so far
that we became perhaps more than we are,
and now being home is hardship. Therefore are we
diminished? No. We are of the world again
but still augmented, more than we've ever been.

Hayden Carruth


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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...

if you want to see some of my poetry, see the blog at:
http://www.myspace.com/retropaul

[miss_american_pie]

1. It's about time!

:hi:

[tinfoil tiaras]

2. Whoa

The poem's about sex, obviously. But it makes it so...non obsene and taboo, somehow. And i like that. Kinda like "Binky The Doormat" by R.E.M. (sorry, I had to make an R.E.M. reference... :D. It uses the word "fuck" but it doesn't make it sound like such a horrible, taboo word.

[lizziegrace]

3. Welcome back RL!

:hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Sorry I missed this till now, my dear RetroLounge........

I even did a simple search in order to find it!

And was it ever worth finding!

How beautifully put.......

To describe how loving another person so completely can make you a better, more complete person....

Wonderful......

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