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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