Do not forgive me. Do not forget
that I betrayed you, once,
but know that all my future fidelities
will come, not so much from a guilty heart,
but one that is still somewhat in shock
over that incident and more than
somewhat in shock at your beauty
of heart and mind, and at your fragility.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
The wonder of loving you is such
that I often search for a deeper silence
in which to acknowledge it.
There is the silence with which
we greet the dawn
or the first glimpse of one’s new-born
child! The silence before
the Sistine Chapel, the Last Supper,
the Mayan pyramids or Angkor Wat.
But when I think of you
I am struck more profoundly
mute.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
If there were no love
you’d have invented it
out of starlight, chanterelles, strawberries
and the longing of your young,
young heart.
The chanterelles in the moist, dark earth
are something of the cousins
of your love. They cannot be cultivated
and yet they grow.
And yet they grow.
If there were no love
you and I would have found ourselves
with nothing but an immense
fascination with each other,
deep-seated friendship, laughter
--and, oh yes, lust.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
When I am there with you, my love, at last
it will be as if it was in lives long past.
Before my fingers come to rest
on your beloved breast
they’ll be shaped for coming home.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
My Baby,
Press your lips
Against my beloved breast
And as you close your eyes
Quench your thirst
With my milky love
Till your tongue meets
The taste of peace.
XXVIII
I love
the mother in you
and the child,
the goof
and the woman in-the-becoming.
I will love your breasts, God willing,
as I already love your questing mind.
I love the turmoil
you create in me
and the peace you command
when you snap out
Jerry! Jerry!
I wait to lose myself
in your eyes
and to find myself again
inside of you.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
Ah, my baby heart!
The time draws near.
Time, that once moved
like the Himalayas,
now races like a frisky
Gibraltar!
16:11, Oct. 1 at the Gare
in Poitiers, while elsewhere
people will be plotting revenge,
babies will be conceived,
politicians will smooth out
the truth, the grass will push up
a little further towards the sun,
and we will see each other at last.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
Sept 29, 2007, 10:00 am EDT
In 48 hours and 11 minutes...
Fenelon, Pierre Elliott Trudeau,
Charles de Gaulle, Poitiers,
Sophie!!!!!
Fenelon, Pierre Elliott Trudeau,
Charles de Gaulle, Poitiers,
Sophie!!!!!
In 48 hours and 11 minutes...
the future will begin.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
And yet
another day will come
another hour.
This day
these next eight hours
until I begin the long long journey
that will end when we
are in each other’s arms,
this day seems hard enough.
And yet
another day will come
another hour...
Last edited by PrinceMyshkin; 09-30-2007 at 08:31 AM.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
I like this one very very much, my dear friend. Hugs!!Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgment that something else is more important than fear." -- Ambrose Redmoon
CR: Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
JF: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. My review is here.
I did not come
to leave you.
I did not leave
to find you
but left love there
on rue des Terres Noire.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
How wise is my beloved
when her heart speaks through her eyes.
There is no deceit in her.
Merriment and truth are her side sisters
and to linger between her thighs
is my delight.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
My love for you
is as if my left hand,
after flailing about in the empty air,
came finally to rest
in my other hand.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
What age and geography
and your love for C.
had promised me
was heartbreak
and I embraced it
as every tender word from you
made it more than worthwhile.
Those ten or eleven days
in Poitiers, how can I
adequately describe them
except to say that every bitter promise
that life holds out to us
was stood on its head.
But now it has been stood
back up again!
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
Flesh
hungers for flesh and mind
for mind, tongue for tongue
tummy for tummy
and genitalia as if
they were twins who had been separated
an intolerable time.
I miss your verbs,
your nouns, your little
chortles, would kill
for one of your prepositions
and as for your breasts...
Well, we won’t speak of them here!
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
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