Sunday, October 8, 2017

A Room of My Own: Youthful Desire Tanka

to W.H. Auden who claimed, Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

beads of sweat
roll between your breasts --
I remember the smell
of my youthful love
on our wedding night
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  1. Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐October 8, 2017 at 11:05 AM

    Below are my published tanka which I think could be read as a prequel and a sequel to the tanka above:

    as I approach
    half of her stiffens
    and half melts away --
    every now and then
    I hear a skylark singing

    Magnapoets, 4, July 2009


    I traced the curves
    of her womanhood
    with my fingers ....
    that night and nights after
    blurring together

    Cattails, May 2016

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