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Re: Poetry versus "poetic prose"
Posted By: Ellmyruh, on host 192.147.67.12
Date: Thursday, January 25, 2001, at 11:36:44
In Reply To: Poetry versus "poetic prose" posted by Issachar on Thursday, January 25, 2001, at 08:44:43:

> Iss "high on Prose-ac" achar
>
> **********
>
> words i did not have at the time
>
> Kiss me again!
> In the moment I broke from you,
> I knew nothing
> But the suddenness of parting,
> The brief, giddy tumbling of the mayfly,
> The unraveling of the world
> As its keystone falls away.
> Kiss me!
> The thirst of Tantalus is on me.
> Let me drink and drink
> And know nothing but the drinking
> Nothing but the press of your lips
> And the tightening knot
> In the middle of me.
> Kiss me forever!
> Let us cling to each other,
> Waist-deep in the midst of the Lethe,
> Past and future swept away
> In the current flowing around and through us.
> Oh, kiss me again!

I hate to make short posts that seem pointless and frivolous, but I was tempted to just post a reply that read, "Wow."

I can't really explain that "Wow" at this point, but I meant it. After reading the poem three times, that is still the only word I can come up with.

Ellmyruh