The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sun 1/29/06)

[RetroLounge]

The Kiss

She pressed her lips to mind.
— A typo

How many years I must have yearned
for someone's lips against mind.
Pheromones, newly born, were floating
between us. There was hardly any air.

She kissed me again, reaching that place
that sends messages to toes and fingertips,
then all the way to something like home.
Some music was playing on its own.

Nothing like a woman who knows
to kiss the right thing at the right time,
then kisses the things she's missed.
How had I ever settled for less?

I was thinking this is intelligence,
this is the wisest tongue
since the Oracle got into a Greek's ear,
speaking sense. It's the Good,

defining itself. I was out of my mind.
She was in. We married as soon as we could.

Stephen Dunn

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RL

[yvr girl]

1. That's a beautiful poem

It makes me sad though.

[RetroLounge]

4. Beauty and Sadness

It's where I live...

:hi:

RL

[yvr girl]

5. They say it's better to have loved, and lost

then to have never loved at all. Neither one is that appealing to me.

[RetroLounge]

8. The person who originally said that

did neither and needs to be pummelled...

RL

[yvr girl]

10. OK. I'll hold him. You can pummell him.

And then we can go out and drink whiskey together.

[RetroLounge]

11. You drink the whiskey

I'll just watch and carry you home afterwards...

RL

[yvr girl]

12. I've never had enough to drink that I couldn't walk

Although, there have been a few occasions when the line may not have been absolutely straight. But if you insist...

Don't you drink? Or did I choose the wrong poison?

[RetroLounge]

13. I stopped drinking after I used up my quota...

I get high on life now.

RL

[yvr girl]

14. I'm way behind you then

I've only been seriously drunk twice. First time when I was about 29 and last year when those Boston folks corrupted me. (They're a VERY bad influence.)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. careful...pressing one's lips to mind is foreplay

for a headfuck

[RetroLounge]

3. "A mental mind fuck can be nice"

Frank - Rocky Horror Picture Show...

RL

[threehensandacow]

7. mind fuck

sounds good to me.

[threehensandacow]

6. i would like to kiss

all those things i've missed.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

9. Good, as always, RL.

:D :hi:

[miss_american_pie]

15. That kind of kissing

can only lead to trouble. ;)

[RetroLounge]

17. Too late...

already has :D

RL

[miss_american_pie]

21. Why am I not surprised?

;)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. My dear RetroLounge.....

What a very sexy and yet sad poem this is!

You have educated me, you know, with these erotic bits......

I thank you....for taking me places I have never been.....

My world is expanding, and it is because of these poems you post every day......



:loveya: :hug:

[Rising Phoenix]

18. good one!

[xchrom]

19. that married line is such a let down.

[RetroLounge]

22. agree

the rest of the poem was great, that line seemed like a toss-off line.

RL

[xchrom]

23. not a toss off -- a wall.

really good poets seem almost obsessively obsessed with what happens to us on that bone deep level.

when you hit something really, really hard -- it shakes -- you stuns -- certainly stops you -- and it stops us with that line.

[SeattleGirl]

20. This one hits home, RL

"How had I ever settled for less?" Settling is not good. It is living less than fully in every aspect of life. I am tired of settling.

:hug: