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An Un-Poem

I’m trying to write a poem now,
so if you’d be so kind...
help me with a word or two,
show me empathy squared
be my paragon of virtue

don’t tell me to swim against the tide
as if I could turn back
these waves
don’t hand me a syllabus
while my body weeps for your touch

don’t show me how pi is resolved into
infinity, show me where the cracks bleed
and where the light runs off, carry me softly
to the sequence of thought and let me rest
inside the long division between man and woman

write to me an endless love poem
that will always equal
the harmonic convergence of shooting stars,
write of music that raises the ruins of our lives
to its almighty splendor,
kiss me, my Darling,
and let no resistance pass between us,
memorize these words and sing them back to me.


— Kailashana, Sep 04, 2008

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weirdelf

weirdelf

17 years 9 months ago

fuck you

an impossible request drown in the tides excsatic embrace, avoid knowledge at your own ignorant behest I won't lie to you of gods given grace lest I be less than a poet, at your behest, I just won't do that. sing them back endlessly, as poets always have. It's still a lie. But still we try. Is that where where our humanity does lie? cheers, Jess
Kailashana

Kailashana

17 years 9 months ago

Sigh, Jess….We are born to

Sigh, Jess.... We are born to and die trying to find a word of truth. Thank God *fuck you* says it all. A definitive treatise on fuck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D7rWLzloOI Wink. ~A p.s. Thanks Barb and Moon-man, your reading my poems always means a lot.
themoonman

themoonman

17 years 9 months ago

~A...

Osho and the magical word... fuck! that was sure a treat this morning... Richard
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col albert

17 years 9 months ago

Matter to mind

I appreciate its prosodic effect Meaningful: the nature of the man.I Love the way you handle the philosophy of beauty. Albert