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serenity blaze
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0 posted 2005-10-16 04:35 AM


My hair is pretty
bouncing tilt
and I am witty
lips of milk
silken soft with a tough tongue
and my little bitty bits
are rough
and I can't get enough
like buzzers at the door, secure
as the doorman smiles at us
asking if I have the stuff
and you're the man who loves me more
as I eager bite the pure
sucking bloodbite from your vein.

(And what is it I have to gain?)

Oh I smell like African
musk in armpits lusciously
as teeny tony beads of sweat
complete my brows complacently
and my teeth are white that set
like suns upon the rippled jet
waves in rolling
jelly dwell
aghast and foaming
on the shelves
gifts
of hell that thatch
the swell
of tiny ells that beat the wrath
of waves that laugh the joyce of elves
crushing inward on themselves
as ripples stoking artistry

And what is it I have but me?
leaving shells upon the shore...

washed away like little feet
and dot-dot-dots of gulls are more

than waves that laugh forever or
rejoicing delves of whistle-wings
at my pretty seaward hair -

Here.


I leave a bit much more for you.


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miscellanea
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1 posted 2005-10-16 06:01 AM


serenity,

   Your writing always causes my imagination to slip between its lines!  I'd be curious to know what inspired this poem. So deep you are, Lady!  

                  miscellanea

Seymour Tabin
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2 posted 2005-10-16 08:08 AM


serenity  
You have walked down the aisle scattering flower pettles. Who is behind you? As always well done.

Sunshine
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3 posted 2005-10-16 08:24 AM


And what is it I have but me?
leaving shells upon the shore...

washed away like little feet
and dot-dot-dots of gulls are more

than waves that laugh forever or
rejoicing delves of whistle-wings
at my pretty seaward hair -

Here.


I leave a bit much more for you.

~*~

And I send an email full of questions!


Rex Allen McCoy
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4 posted 2005-10-16 10:44 AM


I'm always so amazed at your poems ... one gets lost within, feeling your thoughts far more than anything



Dark Angel
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5 posted 2005-10-16 04:18 PM


OMGoddess, i'm speechless, i'm crumbling to the floor.

big sigh....WOW!

m xx

~i want for myself your trembling~

serenity blaze
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6 posted 2005-10-16 04:45 PM


For those of you who have been trying to find out what I meant by the "joyce" of elves, (winks to Kari) I must confess it was simply a play on words inspired by one of my favorite poems which can be found in its entirety here:
http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/chamber.html

(and sighing...would that I could write like that...)

Reading that one, inspired me to write this one, which was written for two of my favorite people--the yin of Dark Angel and the yang of Brian Sites.

I hope that clarifies things a bit.

They see me much more lovelier than I am, so I had a bit of a reverie 'bout that.

to both and hugs to all who have read.

thank you

babygirlwlove
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7 posted 2005-10-16 05:13 PM


my God...you just sweep me away...everytime~~~


~babygirL

**Intoxicant to the SouL**

Magnus
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8 posted 2005-10-16 06:13 PM


What is in your milk today?  Wow!  what a
write....  

Sunshine
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9 posted 2005-10-16 06:43 PM



AHA!

and

thank you.

I felt there had to be a capital to J[oy]
and it was driving me beyond derision to
know how joist might apply....

For you see...

My mother's most favorite friend
was my not-of-blood Joyce....

and my children

are middle named Joyce, and Joy, for her.

I needed this....

in so many, many ways....

thank you!

Dr.Moose1
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10 posted 2005-10-16 07:06 PM


serenity,
And a very spritely dance it is, which gives the reader muse, might one not dance their life away if given elven shoes?
Thanks for this dear,
Doc

Denise
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11 posted 2005-10-16 09:04 PM


This is lovely, Karen! Very beautiful!
Enchantress
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12 posted 2005-10-16 09:35 PM


Amazing write K.
Very much enjoyed...
Love ya lady~

  ~Time has cast a spell on you,
   So you won't ever forget me.~

wranx
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13 posted 2005-10-16 10:01 PM


Ok...I've started, then backspaced, several replies to this.

Lemme just say..."Damn!"
and leave it at that...

iliana
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14 posted 2005-10-17 01:37 AM


"And what is it I have but me?
leaving shells upon the shore...

washed away like little feet
and dot-dot-dots of gulls are more

than waves that laugh forever or
rejoicing delves of whistle-wings
at my pretty seaward hair -

Here.


I leave a bit much more for you."

Yes, you did!  I hope I am getting this one correctly....your comparison with the ocean, its surges, its roar....it's waves erasing the dot..dot..dots....but your words, yes, much more than the dot...dot...dots of sea gulls, a tremendous sharing of your spirit and soul.  Or, then there is the other interpretation I had which is strictly personifying the ocean....lauzy, lauzy....you have me a little curious....either way, I am impressed.  Each line needs its own interpretation, perhaps.  I could think of the leaving more with one interpretation as your own offspring, or I could interpret it to mean, your words, or I could read it to mean the destruction and resulting effects of a hurricane like Katrina, or last year's sunami.  Like I said, this is a work of art....and one worth sitting down and reading many times.  Please let me know if I am on track, Karen.  (PS....I'll try to call soon....but really, tell me now, tell me now....paleeese).   .....jo


Got to thinking about that ocean's droppings.....and if I interpret this to mean the bird's dot dot dots are sh__, then, I guess that last line (if I interpret it that the ocean is the speaker) would mean what the waters left behind is so much more sh__ than the beautiful merriment she is?  Right?  Hey...but, I'm still a bit confused by the title....although, I did catch the word play.

OK,OK....I went back and read the comments.  I suspected James Joyce had some place in all this....and hey, to me....you are in the same class, no joke.  

Now, I think that the poem is yourself....what you leave....your children.  And you are the joyce of elves. LOVE IT!!! I like this interpretation much better....LOL.....luvsyamuchly......jojo

Dark Angel
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15 posted 2005-10-17 07:23 AM


you m'lady have collapsed me.



thank you.

m xx

~i want for myself your trembling~

Kaoru
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16 posted 2005-10-17 06:04 PM


You sometimes (mostly) make me feel like i've been punched in the gut...

and liked it.

littlewing
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17 posted 2005-10-17 09:43 PM


This
is
bloodink . . .


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