Probably the only serious poem you will ever see by MiddleFingerMom

[MiddleFingerMom]

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Pyromania
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Deep in the hearth of our bed
Lips catch sparks like tinder moss
Kindling fingers stoke the fire
Feverish tongues fan the flames
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We begin to cook
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Not a saute, but a simmer
Gentle warm building
Ever building building,
BUILDING to a full boil
Rapid and furious
Roiling near dangerous
'Til these blue-white flames of our desire
Sear our flesh with third-degree moans.
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I the pagan native leaping
Into the heart of your volcano
You the Jeanne d'Arc ascending
The blazing pyre of my stake
I erupt with seismic rapture
While you are consumed by divine ecstacy.
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And we burn. We flare. We BLAZE.
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We fuse.
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Later, the fires banked
With flick-flickering
shadow-tongues of flame
We kiss and touch
And stroke and laugh
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And laugh.
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Yet again
Gathering fuel.
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We smile
As with gentle urgent
Quickening sparks of whisper
We tell...
Then retell
The tale
Of the phoenix.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear MiddleFingerMom!

Ah, this is wonderful...

I really like your metaphors too...

You need to write more!

Thank you.

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. My dear CaliforniaPeggy!

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Thank you.
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If it would have paid the rent, I think I would have been a poet.
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BUT... for me, it was all-consuming and serious effort/work/focus...
without any real compensation. My poetry professor (probably the
BEST teacher I had in college) was an amazing educator who HATED
teaching as it was something he HAD to do to pay his mortgage (and
he was pretty well-published professionally and pretty well-known
in poetry circles.
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I really had/have no desire to be a starving artist.
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I wanna be a pleasingly-plump well-fed artist.
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A fat n' lazy cat stretching on the windowsill in the sunlight.
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[nolabear]

3. Is this recent? Lovely eroticism.

And who says that you can't write poetry for pleasure rather than profit? I do happen to make a little money at it but would be doing it anyway, because it feels better than just about anything!

There are those of us who live for such things and those that don't, and you certainly have a poet's heart.

[MiddleFingerMom]

7. That was a very, VERY nice thing to say. Thank you.

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But I meant it about it being all-consuming for me. I tend to
dive into things whole-heartedly (pagan native that I am) and
what I would really like to put my energies into is a novel...
just coincidentally being the form of writing that would be
most likely to provide some financial return/reward.
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If I'm going to put THAT much of myself into something, it
might as well be something that, at first at least, would see
that basic existence bills were taken care of ad infinitum.
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THEN... I could afford to sit around writing poetry and
eating lotuses -- happy as happy could be.
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[Tobin S.]

4. I guess I'm missing something by being celebate

Nicely done, MFM.

I wanted to be a poet for a while. Charles Bukowski was my inspiration, "Hell, that's poetry? I can do that!" Turns out it's not so easy. I read my Bukowski books now for entertainment.

[MiddleFingerMom]

9. Funny. The professor I've mentioned before told me many years...

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...that if and when Bukowski died, I stood a GREAT chance
of becoming "the dirty old man of poetry". THOSE words were
poetry to my ears -- he was probably MY favorite, too (he
and Gil Scott-Heron -- the combination of the beauty of the
music and the ugliness of the words makes this link my
favorite of his).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYt2K6vacv0
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Bukowski died a while back.
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Didn't happen ('course... I had stopped writing poetry long
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LOVES me some Bukowski. Had a non-speaking role in a Bukowski
play once that I padded with the use of fingercots (teeny-tiny
little condom-like things).
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Was it YOU I was telling that the movie "Barfly" with Mickey
Rourke and Faye Dunaway is about the life of Charles Bukowski?
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[Tobin S.]

11. I've heard of that movie before, but I've not seen it

But I would like to check it out. I did see a documentary about Bukowski in which he said he was not satisfied with the way he was portrayed in the movie. He said that he was actually a much more understated, quiet person. But he did have his moments and maybe he was a little more boisterous than he liked to admit.

[Kali]

5. whew

I don't know shit about poetry but that is uh...smoking? :smoke: ;-)

[blue_roses_lib]

6. Error: You can't recommend threads in this forum

Lame, because this is absolutely beautiful and, ummm.... good imagery? :blush: :fistbump:



Phew ~ Feeling a little warm here....

[woo me with science]

8. I really need a cig now.

Mmmmmmm.

[Callalily]

10. Very moving, and very

sensual. The lines that got to me . . .


We begin to cook
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Not a saute, but a simmer

BIG SIGH