The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sat 1/4/06)

[RetroLounge]

Your Feet

When I cannot look at your face
I look at your feet.
Your feet of arched bone,
your hard little feet.
I know that they support you,
and that your sweet weight
rises upon them.
Your waist and your breasts,
the doubled purple
of your nipples,
the sockets of your eyes
that have just flown away,
your wide fruit mouth,
your red tresses,
my little tower.
But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.

Pablo Neruda

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RL

[yvr girl]

1. But would you polish my toenails for me?

Like in "Bull Durham."

Good morning.

[RetroLounge]

4. Any time, any color

:hi:

RL

[miss_american_pie]

2. Now there's a man who knows how to love a woman

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

5. and Neruda is pretty good too...

:rofl:

RL

[miss_american_pie]

10. Promises, promises...

;)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Another beautiful image this morning, my dear RetroLounge!

Pablo Neruda sure knows how to put the words together, doesn't he?

This is just lovely, to be sure!

Thank you......

:hug:

[RetroLounge]

:hug:

RL

[LaraMN]

7. That lends me a bit more of an appreciation for a body part

I've never particularly admired. We should all be fortunate enough to be so cherished.

[SeattleGirl]

8. I especially love the last sentence

Thanks as always, RL. :loveya:

[swimboy]

9. Nice.

I think sometimes about how wandering paths encounter and find their confluence.

ALso I hope sniffa wiLL see this one.

:hi: