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babygirlwlove
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0 posted 2005-05-20 05:30 PM

Watch For The Night
"hush, my heart, for something is done"

Watch for the night
to lay our vows
over the wild parable of gardens
and over the wet lessons of the moon,
that give us prophecy in whispers
of dream, elope, and leave
the absence of still rooms,

soothing, svelte lips
descend upon the nape
in the séance of evening,
you soak cala lilies
in our red earth oils
and rum, and with them
draw me a nuptial bath,

unbind the taupe soles
I have kept with the grace
of a concubine, sold
into the dark alcoves,
beyond the value of reticence,
you find me in rainstorms,
and wrap me in the flesh

and fabric of your hands,
behind silk walls,
with the ardor
of Repunzel’s deliverance,
all let down over the clavicles,
as fists unclench
in their exhaustion,

baby roses quiver
this night, I keep
in pecan skin and votive eyes,
dip the farenheit of your glance,
as it strays over lips, your tongue
whips of mustard weeds, seed your voice
sinks into the garden’s cleavage,

as its lit pink tapers
spill their desperate midnights
and abandoned mornings,
ache under the arthritic, thick cedar
addictions to the milkflower
of a presence painted in clay glyphs,
stay the sinew and thrust

of my body, a madrigal
upon our Indian Summer bed,
bled in a chorus of cicadas
let the hymn be heard
over all these broken vows
and shattered pledges, speak
from the ruined marriage

of flesh, as I kneel in our earth,
in the sere, and seek in myself
that measure of peace, I know
is not there, without you,
to writhe in the throes
of exquisite anguish,
I give

my mouth in dream,
between your thighs
where the river runs fierce,
under the lithe, sapling root
of my tongue, as it runs
the swifts currents
and golden eddies

of inebriate skin, puckers
over the Inulin of the anus
and begins its swelling,
down the trellis of bones,
and the bondage of limbs
‘neath the black monsoon
of the soul, as it perishes

in the engorged maw
of the split body, blades
of shoulders, soaked with the myrrh
of our rapture, fading
lifelines engraved on the back
of the hand you hold soft,
against me,

as my throat buries its moan
swallowed by your own, for solely
in you is it silenced, quelled
by the swells of song
you reign in the jugular
and soothe, a balm
for all my body, burning

its defiance, taken
to the limits of this,
our savage garden,
in the pilgrimage
to such lavish boundaries,
held abeyant, in the cadence
of candles and solemn vows

sound the rhythm of our slow deaths,
writ in the lush psalm of the handsome earth,
our love, engulfed
in the wells of the sole desire,
I give you this,
my body’s silk white harvest of faith,
driven fast with nails

into the exquisite wrists of the christflesh,
shivering under the furtive delirium
of these, our fevers,
severed body to body: twain,
that is now one ardent sorrow of flesh,
this is my body,
this is my blood,

I have given,
vows to bind our words, my husband,
to the vigilance of night, that lives
and dies with the fall and rise of your breath,
one muslin depth,
relinquished to the white earth,
over an eternity of deliverance…

~from The Fairytale Journals~

for my husband
2005 copyright Mari Laureano/babygirLPress

**Please e-me for the link to more poems from this series and for information regarding the release of The Fairytale Journals**

**Intoxicant to the SouL**

[This message has been edited by babygirlwlove (05-20-2005 09:30 PM).]

serenity blaze
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1 posted 2005-05-20 06:41 PM

Your title caught the eye of this nocturnal lunartic but the poem took my breath away.

Absolutely stunning M.

babygirlwlove
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2 posted 2005-05-20 06:47 PM

thanks for checking this out, Serenity~

love&light,
**babygirL**

**Intoxicant to the SouL**

Susan
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since 2004-03-27

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3 posted 2005-05-21 11:17 AM

Oh my - this is incredible - like sipping fine wine on a candlelit evening -

Susan

If I wander far enough, long enough, will I finally know . . .

Mysteria

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4 posted 2005-05-21 12:19 PM

Geez, I hate to rant on these beautifully written comments above, but...

WOW! This simply does take the breath away, in an orgasmic kind of way beyond any words I could ever come up with, but I am darn sure you would have some though.

From the very title you had me, (as a reader of course,) and I am darn sure you sure got him too I bet?

Please poetess, take your

This is without a doubt my very favorite of all I have read of yours thus far, and you know I read all I can get my hands on!

WOW!

    WOW!

More please Mari? (send link)  I sure hope this is in book form too?  If so, where, Amazon again?  I can not wait to absorb as much as my brain allows and make this book a summer read.

Oh did I forgot to mention I loved it!  Now I won't be satisfied in life until I get myself some of that farenheit of glance too.

Martie

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5 posted 2005-05-21 02:32 PM

Incredible visuals and sensory sensual exploration. Loved it!

passing shadows
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6 posted 2005-05-21 04:04 PM

now this is passion!

babygirlwlove
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7 posted 2005-05-21 04:06 PM

hey PIP fam~

thanks so much for the warm, warm replies...((((Sharon))))...you are a doll...the link is forthcoming...but alas the book will probably not be released until November~

This has to be my most spiritual body of work....and the book...The Fairytale Journals, will most likely be my last published work for a long time to come...

Thank you all for the love and encouragement you have always shown me on this board...

love&light,
**Mari**

**Intoxicant to the SouL**

Margherita
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8 posted 2005-05-21 05:05 PM

I read this stunning POEM while listening to a Gospel cd by Mahalia Jackson. Well, I don't know if the music was flowing into the poem, or the poem into the music. The mixture was simply fantastic!

Love, Margherita

babygirlwlove
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9 posted 2005-05-21 06:31 PM

Margherita~

thank you for the looksee...I have often thought of marrying the words to music...but unfortunately...the words are the limit of my lyrical ability...

thanks again!

love&light,
**Mari**

**Intoxicant to the SouL**

Balladeer

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10 posted 2005-05-22 01:58 AM

From what I see here, there ARE no limits to your lyrical abilities. This is indeed exceptional work and a pleasure to experience with the eyes.....

babygirlwlove
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11 posted 2005-05-22 09:33 AM

Balladeer~

thanks so much for the encouragement~

love&light,
**babygirL**

**Intoxicant to the SouL**

Seymour Tabin
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12 posted 2005-05-22 06:56 PM

babygirlwlove
You have leaped into the air and became a butterfly picturing the essentials of life.
Excellent

babygirlwlove
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13 posted 2005-05-22 08:33 PM

Seymour~

thank you for the lovely reply~

so much love,
**Mari**

**Intoxicant to the SouL**

Toerag
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14 posted 2005-05-23 07:36 AM

You are indeed a very talented young lady....

Cpat Hair

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15 posted 2005-05-23 08:08 AM

I have given,
vows to bind our words, my husband,
to the vigilance of night, that lives
and dies with the fall and rise of your breath,
one muslin depth,
relinquished to the white earth,
over an eternity of deliverance…

with an ending like that... and the words that precede the final gasp of solemnity...

he is one lucky man

babygirlwlove
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16 posted 2005-05-23 08:55 AM

Toe~

thanks for hitting this...

love&light,
**babygirL**

**Intoxicant to the SouL**

babygirlwlove
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Posts 1180
New York City

17 posted 2005-05-23 08:56 AM

Chief~

thanks so much for the looksee...it is always a thrill to find your name on the board...and actually...I feel like the lucky one, again and again

so much love,
**baby

**Intoxicant to the SouL**

Midnitesun

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18 posted 2005-05-23 09:25 AM

M, am going to re-read this one again
it is an extraordinarily beautiful composition, revealing great passionate committment. Thanks for sharing!

babygirlwlove
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New York City

19 posted 2005-05-23 10:19 AM

midnitesun~

thanks so much for stopping in on my lunacy...

love&light,
**Mari**

**Intoxicant to the SouL**

wranx
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20 posted 2005-05-23 11:54 AM

There are times when I feel "language" is inadequate...Here, you again disprove that.

Alas, its only me that is lacking.

Damn, damn, and damn again...Your Fairytale Journals are nothing shy of stellar!

babygirlwlove
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Posts 1180
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21 posted 2005-05-23 12:18 PM

My dear, dear hermit wranx,

Your support and encouragement mean so much to me...thank you...

so much love,
**babygirL**

**Intoxicant to the SouL**

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