This week's Blog Carnival, sponsored by Bridget Chumbley of "One Word at a Time" and Peter Pollock of "Rediscovering the Church", takes as its prompt the word "lust". Below is my offering, a series of poems that can be read separately or all of a piece. Others' contributions, likely to be added throughout the day, are here at Bridget's place.
Love Not Love
Worry
What he takes
As just a silly little feud
His lust
Your wanting
Work out like this:
Even with the furs
Traded as down-payment
He'll leave you cold.
*
Eye roving
Hitting
Missing (mostly)
Wander-lust
Leaves a trail
With no followers
*
She was warned
He wouldn't stand
For ceremony
She got silky words
Surface polished to shiny
So great a luster
For her
Didn't disappoint
It's a matter
Of choice after all
*
He thrummed desire
With the speed a clock
Strikes down seconds
Love you, she'd say
Her heart
Invisibly indivisible
His beat unsoothed
Scanning giver then receiver
Proof enough
Love goes
So far
So far
So far
Copyright © 2010 Maureen E. Doallas. All Rights Reserved.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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12 comments:
Maureen - I really liked this. The think I love about poetry (I'm discovering) is the same words can mean something completely different from one reader to the next.
This was my favorite:
She was warned
He wouldn't stand
For ceremony
She got silky words
Surface polished to shiny
So great a luster
For her
Didn't disappoint
It's a matter
Of choice after all
Thank you for taking time to read and comment, Kathy.
Not only do same words mean different things to different people, the words may have more than one meaning (as in in several places here).
"Even with the furs/Traded as down-payment/he'll leave you cold." That sound like something Mae West would have said. I love this poem, Maureen, and you captured "lust" perfectly.
I love the duality of the words -- I love these poem and lust after your creativity! Hmmm, can I do that? Is it wrong to lust after creativity? Is it like your title, Love but Love not love
Admire but admire not admiration? :)
Glynn, channeling Mae West, that's got to be a first for me.
Louise, good questions. Be sure to see Glynn's post. Somewhere on Slate is a post by Robert Pinsky that discusses lust in the context of love. He gives some helpful examples.
Maureen ... beautiful exploration of a topic we don't talk much about. thanks.
one can meet another in love
but never can lust be met
I so enjoy your poetry and thoughts, Maureen.
These words stuck out for me:
Wander-lust
Leaves a trail
With no followers
Joyce, nAncY, and Bridget, I appreciate each of your comments. And it's fascinating to see which lines strike some meaning for different readers.
Maureen, you've made me look again at wanderlust.
As someone who's long loved travel, I still dream of all the places I'd like to visit. I suspect my tendency is to wander in my mind with more lust than will give me true contentment for the place the Lord has planted me.
You've awakened my need to revisit "wanderlust."
"He wouldn't stand on ceremony"
Very moving. My heart went out to her.
OMG, this is absolutely delicious -- and adding luster was just a lustrous icing on the cake!
... like Helen, I loved "he wouldn't stand on ceremony." brilliant.
... BTW: I'm a second alto/tenor, too!
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