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Open Poetry #33

If not for your touch

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2004-09-15 03:04 PM

If not for your touch
I’d believe in bad luck
and indiscriminate coupling
meant neither to probe
nor rise to embrace
the essence of true ecstasy.

If not for your touch
I’d believe you plucked out
your manner of being
from my fantasy
and glued it all over
the edges and seams
of how you appear to me.

If not for your touch
I’d be juggling in air
fragments and snippets
of fact, fiction, folk lore,
and crossing them over
behind my back
till tied up in knots
of indecision.

If not for your touch
I’d be playing the field
and wandering pastures
first green and then brown
but it’s always been known,
you have always known,
not to touch soul and then let it go.

The power of touch always stands poised
on the extreme outer edge of dismissal
and those who maliciously give it a shove …
oh, let me just truthfully say
they’ll know what it feels like one day!

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

1 posted 2004-09-15 03:12 PM

great miracles these special ones formulate in our souls...a few good moments are worth a lifetime...wonderful penning!

sim0riah
Member

since 2004-09-07

Posts 253
Wyoming USA

2 posted 2004-09-15 04:34 PM

A Very Nice Read..Thank You

sim0riah

Only at night you can see the depth of the sun

Sim0riah

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

3 posted 2004-09-15 04:58 PM

Thank you LeeJ and SimOriah for reading and commenting. You got that one right LeeJ but some of us remain needing more.

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

4 posted 2004-09-16 07:41 PM

Helen

"you have always known,
not to touch soul and then let it go."

That is the tricky part, isn't it?

MyHeartofShadows
Member

since 2004-09-04

Posts 88
Hyattsville, MD

5 posted 2004-09-16 07:57 PM

I’ve known that touch, you bring back the thoughts of it. I hope that you never lose the touch that excites

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

6 posted 2004-09-16 08:37 PM

Nice writing...James

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