(performance notes: Where I play music in the open, an old acquaintance lurks. The people who haunt downtown -- many homeless, some mentally unbalanced, including her-- circulate freely)
THE MADWOMAN’S KISS
“Look for me under your boot-soles.”
–Walt Whitman
Like mint-collared bourgeois cremes,
many townsmen put it at a premium,
like touching the French bellringer’s hump,
his incensed cry
rinsing glory from plain clouds.
Crazy Ellie got behind me
and pecked me on the cheek--
trigger-fingered hands aimed lower.
She stood in
the Farmer’s Market and danced
a slow tar-strip waltz.
Once you’ve had her
they say
she never leaves you
you are locked in her heart
or under the diamond tread of her
tambourine boot-soles.
So it was a grace to be nibbled by
her mouth, a red cave of air
fresh from the bite of
ocean rhubarb.
For just a moment
I was happy.
10/05
poem: "THE MADWOMAN'S KISS"
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Zlatko Waterman
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I was drawn to The Madwoman's Kiss like the mad woman I am...
I was not disappointed.
Little did she know she would be described so richly and read so appreciatively.
Thank-you for sharing her.
I was not disappointed.
Little did she know she would be described so richly and read so appreciatively.
Thank-you for sharing her.
I used to walk with my head in the clouds but I kept getting struck by lightning!
Now my head twitches and I drool alot. Anonymouse
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Now my head twitches and I drool alot. Anonymouse
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gypsyjoker
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I can't remember if I read it somewhere, probably?
the phrase
"poetic inhalation" comes to mind. As if I red all the lines at once,
that was beautiful
ten four
bye bye blackbird
the phrase
"poetic inhalation" comes to mind. As if I red all the lines at once,
that was beautiful
ten four
bye bye blackbird
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'Blessed is he who was not born, Or he, who having been born, has died. But as for us who live, woe unto us, Because we see the afflictions of Zion, And what has befallen Jerusalem." Pseudepigrapha
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'Blessed is he who was not born, Or he, who having been born, has died. But as for us who live, woe unto us, Because we see the afflictions of Zion, And what has befallen Jerusalem." Pseudepigrapha
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creativesoul
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Re: poem: "THE MADWOMAN'S KISS"
Is it the passion of the madwoman that makes her kiss
Tame the bliss of the Randy man
Sometimes it is just because she can
The courtesan raises many questions about love
Belonging to the hunger from deep within
That insatiable need to touch- to feel
This was the madwoman and her heat
Have some water with a squeeze of lime
Clean your palate
Taste that kiss
Tame the bliss of the Randy man
Sometimes it is just because she can
The courtesan raises many questions about love
Belonging to the hunger from deep within
That insatiable need to touch- to feel
This was the madwoman and her heat
Have some water with a squeeze of lime
Clean your palate
Taste that kiss
reason is over rated, as is logic and common sense-i much prefer the passions of a crazy old woman, cats and dogs and jungle foliage- tropic rain-and a defined sense of who brings the stars up at night and the sun up in the morning---
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