It must be the sultriness of the weather, the heat that pulsates in this ‘spring’ air that brings our thoughts to passion, sex. June opens with a furnace blast and there is still three more weeks of spring. But summer has more than appeared, and we will have to make the best of it. The night is cooler, and one can stand the touch of another, as long as there are fans and the touch is fleeting.
It is still spring, with all the fertility of pollen, reproduction, grafting, etc….so perhaps if one’s thoughts turn to passion, it can be expected.
Lady Nyo
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O Absalom!
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O Absalom,
Ensnared by long hair in the
Boughs of an oak,
Pierced through the heart three times–
The shimmer of life now fading.
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I,
Pulled into mysteries
So abandoned by love
Now given over to lust
Charged with stolen rapture
Dizzy as a drunken dervish-
One hand upward to Heaven
One hand spilling to Earth
Skirts stiffened with sins hard as stone
Corrupted over a life time and now–
Flayed on an unending mandala.
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Mystery of Life,
Unstoppable desire,
O beautiful Absalom,
We float upon a divine river
Entangled in the reeds of human wanting.
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This is our nature,
This our calling while
Flesh answers flesh.
What quarter be given when the heart is
Overwhelmed by passions excess?
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Lie still–
Let the waters cleanse our loins,
Let the mud of banks soothe our wounds,
Our blood mingle with the floating grasses,
Our hearts sink beneath the surface.
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Let the rivers of Babylon
Carry us away.
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Jane Kohut-Bartels
Copyrighted, 2009,
from ” A Seasoning of Lust”, published by Lulu.com
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