Wow! Exotic or what!
(If it wasn't sunny and warm round here right now - it would be now!).
This seems a poem that stands right in front of you and is unashamed of what
it says (and there's no need for it to be ashamed anyway!). Exotic...
sensual, and erotic too, I guess.
When reading the last stanza I noticed, in the first line, Love (with a
capital letter) then I noticed a lack of full stops in the whole poem (I
hadn't noticed that before!). I guess Capital Letters, full-stops, commas,
dashes (etc) are ways of controlling the speed words are taken in by readers
- and you use commas (which are just touching the brakes) - and Caps (which
are more pressure on the brakes) so I guess you want me to get through this
poem very quickly! Or am I wrong?
Bob
>From: Marilyn Injeyan <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: S.C. #15/ Mirth
>Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:28:00 EDT
>
> Mirth
>
>
> Let me laugh my dreams
> into your lips - stars
> found in the sea, unknotted
> words, cherry blossoms, a stallion
> shaped root and peach-scented
> satin, to flower in disguised night
>
> As visions mist, eavesdrop
> while I balance on a thin wire
> in a perfect arabesque
> holding only thoughts of you
> Joy grazes skin in seamless play
>
> Come swim in unbuttoned laughter
> Current sings its own song
> and no doubt lingers on
> We'll flash through depths, leap
> with dolphin's ease, float in a lagoon
>
> With a lozenge of light, Love,
> I bend over you in sleep,
> survey eyelids' horizons, trace
> brows, examine new bruises,
> massage old aches
> and press mirth into your mouth
>
>
> Marilyn Injeyan
> April 21, 2002
>
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