At The End

Yes, that's how love poetry should be, to me...no cliches, no sentiment, no porn. But I must confess, there is a secret, heehee. I DO resort to explicitness in the early stages of a love poem, sometimes. I guess it's because I'm male,so my ideas and concepts about love tend towards the more physical side of things, I don't know. But it is often easier for me to use explicit language to get the initial structure and emotions down. Then I very carefully run through the whole thing and replace every pornographic passage and line and word with something that isn't pornographic and yet still evokes the scene and the sensuousness and passion and delight. And once in a while, I do leave something in that is just a tad porno, when I think it is absolutely right. "Lilies In The Rain" is one of those. But usually the implied physicality is far more readable, interesting, entertaining and arousing than the explicit; after all, pornographic poetry, while occasionally fun, can become so boring so quickly! I also use this process of editing and replacing sentimentality as well, because in love poems I feel that sentiment gets in the way of the true emotion, but that's just me. I do find this a lot harder to do though, than with the explicit stuff. It does seem to work though, doesn't it? I am glad that you enjoy my efforts so much. Respectfully Jim "Laws and rules don't kill freedom: narrow-minded intolerance does" : Race