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Which of these two poems is better?
I wrote #1 and thought it was done, but then I read it to the man who inspired it and he said it felt unfinished to him, so I kept working on it.
Then I submitted it for publication here and it’s taking like 8 years to be approved by a moderator, so I just keep rewriting it and rewriting it.
Now I just reread the first one posted earlier here and it feels perfectly finished to me, on top of which, I think I just like it better.
But, I don’t know. Anyone feel like sharing your opinion?
I like the first one. It feels better and leaves more room for the reader.
I also like the suggestion regarding the metaphor line, it seems like you could just drop the "a metaphor of" and let it read simply, "You make my mouth..."
It's intense and we don't really want kisses to feel finished, do we?
That Girl in the Sundress
does not resemble you—
her hair is too straight, too light
to be your dark, rich waves.
She is too young, too blank
in experience of life
to taste like the wine of your kiss,
your conversation. But she is bare,
or nearly so, and her beautiful
shoulders and slim, tanned legs
make me think of sex, and so,
the way a grainy photograph
must serve at times for soul,
this is why—how—she becomes you.
Now that you mention it, no, not really.
And he usually does NOT go down on me after he kisses me in this very intentionally suggestive way, which is obviously cruel and unusual, and very much UN-fucking-finished in my mind...
But, I’m getting off topic, so.
Thank you both, doc and cal, for the feedback. It’s my first time to ask for some, and get some, so it is meaningful to me that you replied and helped. It makes me feel like a real poet. So, thank you for that.
I took your advice and landed on this. I like it better now.
Kissing You
Sometimes you part my lips,
Like a familiar road,
My cunt,
Your hair,
The ocean.
You taste my tongue,
Like it is the sky,
My clit,
Your own.
You make my mouth,
A messenger,
A meteor,
A myth.
Make me ache for it.
Hope for it.
Imagine it.
Know it.
I adore this. The power and sensuality in such brevity. Keep it up. This certainly raised me![]()
..and so the weight of a mans heart is barely 300grams
a woman's slightly less
and beyond the fatalistic beating
70-80 of those a minute
pumping life into the furthest reaches of the cosmos
because the connections in the human brain
link beyond that of the stars in the sky
I burn for the curled warmth
of your breath on my face
tickling
inviting me to stare
into the unknown
the abyss that stares back
reflecting a fleeting moment
where my breath quickens
the pulse races and all 300grams of
me pounds as if I am sprinting
from death
as if the maelstrom of ideas I hold
are phantoms leaking out
being consumed by the simple act
of holding you cocooned in the Sanskrit
writings calligraphed on you skin in indelible ink
invisible to those looking out from within there own
hollows
but I see the lines and want to trace them out
write those letters of some such on all 300grams of my beating insanity
taste your taboos and kiss them away
until they are integrated into an us
to help you conquer your dreams
not stand in the way and try to do it for you
shield you from wounds that would altogether be mortal if I was not there
but I refuse to take those wounds that will make you stronger
there is some kind of gorgeous huger
in the suffering of fools in love
as if a heart beating battery acide
and a mind clouded in the dizzy fogs are all that matter
and yes I burn for you
ache to join in the topography of your flesh
breath the sanguis perfume
from between your thighs
the moments of awe
hair raised in shivering piloerection
as I melt
Aristotle believed the heart was a lamp that kept us warm
and mine surges into a bonfire
whenever I read the depth of you
engraved in all 300grams
of my lifes blood
Agreed in all but the honing Todski. I know it needs an edit simply because you wrote it on your mobile phone touch pad. If you'll allow me I will clean it up for you.todski... it's like you missed 3 rungs on the stepladder and wrote this one from the fourth up from you regulars.
they were pretty damned good, visceral, and beyond simple 'raw' - this latest is honed to a professional feel without being so shiny it's tawdry.
Agreed in all but the honing Todski. I know it needs an edit simply because you wrote it on your mobile phone touch pad. If you'll allow me I will clean it up for you.
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