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Subject:

Re: New subject, Delicate Pastel

From:

Deborah Russell <[log in to unmask]>

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The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>

Date:

Sat, 26 Apr 2003 02:35:45 -0400

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Hello Sally,

It's very nice to receive comments from you. :) I enjoy reading your work,
though I haven't seen a post, from you, in a while. The bridge doesn't seem
very active lately.

Let me know where you are posting, when you have a moment. - Deborah


Wow deborah, you are saying things about poetry that ought to be heretical!
but they work in your poem. One is carred along, and anyway I probably agree
with it. You are always so extreme and unafraid.
well done
SallyE

on 25/4/03 3:59 pm, Deborah Russell at [log in to unmask] wrote:

 > Delicate Pastel
 >
 > our dreams are something shining
 > beloved as a gentle muse
 > we know we are not holy, and yet
 > this poetry where you and i
 > raid dictionaries of greedy fantasies
 > our selfish streak rises, surfaces
 > to have, to hold, to swallow within
 > inspiring words, our longing
 > yearning to be read, to define
 > and record loving and hating
 > so beautiful, so repulsive
 > and more... our words feel
 > no style of writing
 > no dancing, no chasing,
 > no warrior victories
 > in dreams of surrender
 > into sweet, dear silence
 > poetry plunges and swims
 > in deep pools, perfumed whispers
 > that die in captivity
 > and breathe at once,
 > so alive, so dead
 > somewhere - our voices speak
 > we write of love and say aloud
 > kiss, hold and caress
 > this glorious poetry, we pull
 > as a penny, from behind love's ear
 > until finite tics announce we are one
 > we weep in difficult moments
 > evidence love is essential
 > to light, hope, possibility -
 > your tongue caresses mine
 > as though eternity exists
 > we give what cannot be given
 > something, so difficult as this
 > our bodies sweat and tremble
 > beneath feelings; knowing
 > intimate wanderings
 > of tender, timid moments
 > that glisten like pearls--
 > our delicate pastel,
 > a mirror mist, that beads
 > our reflection - so beautiful
 > we kiss and kiss again
 > fingers, hands, arms
 > warm and hot and cold, the touch
 > this dedication of flesh on flesh
 > how desire and pleasure dreams
 > and breathes as if, passion
 > would commit quiet suicide
 > in a single kiss
 >
 > deborah russell, 2003
 >
 >
 >
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Post Poems | Inside | Cityslide
Shadow Poetry | Parallels Words For The Wind

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