Dear Mike I like this poem but think it needs pruning here and there to make
the poem have more impact, Sally J
>From: Mike Horwood <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: New sub: Language of desire
>Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:01:16 +0200
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>Language of Desire
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>There isnīt only one way to say this;
>even the demotic has its dialects
>and not everyone admits the compulsion to colloquialism.
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>An orchid springs from my belly,
>its roots are buried deep,
>and though the orchid seems more Diana than Priapus,
>looks might deceive.
>For we do not choose our deepest desires,
>we find them, rather, planted within us,
>and that seed does not fall on stone
>but on the fertile soil of flesh and bone.
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>Yes, there are other ways to say this.
>Words have their own natures and origins,
>a different taste on different tongues.
>And in modest England ideas must be clothed in them,
>but some people like to dress up more than others.
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>Mike
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