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Balancing

The sun, a blazing circle of celestial fire
Hangs low upon the horizon,
Its fiery glory reflecting orangely
On the wind-whipped, blue-green sea.

The late afternoon sees my love and I,
Arms and legs entwined, bollock naked on the beach,
Rapt in appreciation of that blest moment
When sun and sea join in mystic communion.

And yet, all is not golden:
When one mentions the word "legs"
Once is certainly grammatically correct, yet
One does not convey the true situation to the reader.

You see, my lover is the sad possessor
Of a fifty percent deficit in the podial department,
Whilst I have a full double complement.
And thus to so-called act of generation
(Most times mis-named, for which I thank the gods)
Is a feat* requiring great dexterous equilibrium.

However, my love's club foot (speaking candidly,
An admitted visual defect most times)
Now comes to the rescue of Eros' urgent needs,
With the aid of a little mutual ingenuity.

Balancing carefully on my dear one's abbreviated podex,
Supported carefully by the discarded surgical boot,
A passable shag can usually be achieved.
Only the halitosis appears irremediable.

[* = a pun.]

About This Poem

Style/Type: Free verse

Review Request Direction: How does this theme appeal to you?

Review Request Intensity: I appreciate moderate constructive criticism

Editing Stage: Editing - polished draft

About the Author

Region, Country: London, Culture Capital of the World

Favorite Poets: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Chaucer, Shakespeare to name but a few. And VERY IMPORTANTLY: Erich Fried, a leftwing Austrian of Jewish ancestry who fled the Nazis and became a British citizen in 1949., And, other writers (non-poets mainly): Raymond Chandler, Irvine Welsh, Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, Charles Bukowski, John le Carré, Anthony Horowitz, Mick Herron, Margaret Attwood, Edna O'Brian, Maeve Binchy., Writers who I find vastly over-rated: TS Eliot, Virgina Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Phil Larkin, E.A. Poe, A. Ginsburg, Longfellow, Gerald Manley Hopkins (actually I LOATHE Hopkins more than damson-dappled words can say).

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Comments

Geezer

Geezer

5 years 6 months ago

I would guess...

that there are many relationships where there are physical abnormalities and that adjustments have to be made. My own father had one leg that had been amputated very close to the groin; due to a motorcycle accident and evidently made do. Your poem made me revisit old wonderments about how? I didn't spend much time on it, because I wasn't too keen on picturing my father and mother in that kind of situation, but... And there has been the occasional puzzlement about people in wheelchairs and dwarves or "little people" as they like to be called. Anyhow, I got a [kick out of it], pun absolutely intended.
Very interesting. ~ Geezer.
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Edna Sweetlove

Edna Sweetlove

5 years 6 months ago

Thank you...

...for your considered comments. I hope you weren't offended. Had I known about your father I would not have posted it in that form.
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Geezer

Geezer

5 years 6 months ago

Truly...

not a problem and to be offended about such a thing is ridiculous. It is a fact of life that these things happen, I saw no disrespect here; just a statement of fact. Interesting write. ~ Geezer.
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