What do these poems have in common?

[Senna Jawa]

(...besides the fact that they are all by me).




Another Supper for Monster


    Ariadne
    i follow my one way thread
    there is no way back
    there is little to look forward
    even you
    can't see through
    it's a maze
                an amazing mess
    but the sun is low
    the thread is about to end


Senna Jawa
1983-11-06


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    i see my dog's tail
    warm is this cool night





            night. vague dog.
            tail wagging clearly.




                        PC CD jazz
                        dog teeth shine at me
                        -- dawn




                face to face
                with clock





                                hearing a skylark
                                ready to collapse


Senna Jawa
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life is a private party



    me?
    no tv
    here
    first time
    in this bar
    beer
    and in
    the mirror
    a young woman
    good looking sharp cheerful
    black pants black blouse
    a guard
    she guards
    a walk-in closet
    in the wall behind me

    this might be my only time
    in this bar which caught my eye
    in the past months
    a bar that belongs
    to oriental movies
    which mix kung fu with money

    the coming visitors don't enter
    the huge dark room on my right
    for which i didn't care myself
    i meet enough drunkards
    outdoors

    instead
    the oh so elegant guests vanish
    in the closet
    the young woman
    frisks them
    fast
    armpits inner thighs ankles

    some New Saigon it seems
    and on my way
    out i ask
    it's a private party
    she says

    but of course



Senna Jawa
1995-10-03


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your lips



    a horseshoe brings you luck

    say bell say punch say bitter
    your own spoken words hammer your lips
    or say love how easy

    kisses heat your lips
    words
    shape...
    shsh...shush
    my fingers found

    your lips



Senna Jawa
1995-10-09



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    i dare to say
    that i much prefer
    to wish you a happy
    new year in person

    i invoke
        that image and more
    that i test
        your breath for the smoke and more
    and your lips for the taste of tobacco
            and more
    and i wish your eyes would be serious and more
    and more and more no end
    i wish for nothing more and nothing less


Senna Jawa
1985-12-15/16



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[Senna Jawa]

This thread has over 50 reads and zero responses   (Well, now it has 1 but it doesn't count since it is my own).

Never mind, it's not important. I am just musing.

 

[KatPurrs]

SJ, I don't have a clue. Now you have two.

Kat

 

[_Land]

SJ

the answer is both easy and complicated, I will have a go at this over the weekend when I have time to put them in a side by side format and do a thorough review..... I really like the first one.....


_N

 

[KatPurrs]

Re: SJ

the answer is both easy and complicated, I will have a go at this over the weekend when I have time to put them in a side by side format and do a thorough review..... I really like the first one.....


_N

Smarty Pants!

Kat

 

[Dirt Man]

One man's opinion

they are the same in that they are written by a lonely woman, and they are different in that they are different views of her perspective.

As Always
I am the
Dirt Man

 

[MyOpinion]

My thoughts on your poems, Senna Jawa

I suspect your poems are about your day alone, for each has an element of time and longing as well as reflection. A somber, almost mellow mood, seems to run through all of the poems.

Supper for monster - the monster is time alone.

Dog's Tail - seems you spent the night waiting all the way to dawn

Life is a private party - alone again, reflective?

your lips - a smile, the effect of words upon the lips, the longing to be with another whose lips you wish to touch. Alone again.

i dare to say - again I get the sense of longing for one not there.

Interesting that they were all written in the late autumn.
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In others words, I agree with DirtMan! Except SJ is male
Didn't see DMs post till I posted this!
*Opi must be needing glasses*