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Simple Safe Feeling

October 15, 2009
By oracle-of-nonsense PLATINUM, Winnabow, North Carolina
oracle-of-nonsense PLATINUM, Winnabow, North Carolina
37 articles 4 photos 61 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;We are born with two incurable diseases -- life, from which we die; and hope, which says maybe death isn&rsquo;t the end.&quot;<br /> - Andrew Greeley


Safe simple feeling of
"I want to wake up
in your arms,
naked skin
swishing against
naked skin.
I want to be
half conscious
of early sunrise morning sky
beyond our dark curtains
before drifting back to sleep
on your chest, in your heartbeat.

I never want to be old
or do commonplace things
that have no soul
to whisper me poetry.
I never want to come down
from this plane
where everything is a perfumed symphony
of colorful emotion,
and everything is words, words, words
trickling themselves down into the perfect lines,
where I call them poetry
and give them to you
on paper, on skin,
by mouth, by hand.
And you know that this
is what's shaking the ocean out ~

I give you my heart
I give it to you in my words."

The author's comments:
The end is sort of a play on e e cummings's poem, "i carry your heart with me".

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Aderes47 GOLD said...
on Apr. 18 2011 at 4:52 pm
Aderes47 GOLD, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Favorite Quote:
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. <br /> Henry Drummond

I love that poem "   i carry your heart with thee" by e.e cummings too!

I love your poem too!


Aderes47 GOLD said...
on Apr. 18 2011 at 4:51 pm
Aderes47 GOLD, Cambridge, Massachusetts
11 articles 0 photos 897 comments

Favorite Quote:
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. <br /> Henry Drummond

Ditto Tara's comment.

on Feb. 1 2010 at 8:47 am
oracle-of-nonsense PLATINUM, Winnabow, North Carolina
37 articles 4 photos 61 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;We are born with two incurable diseases -- life, from which we die; and hope, which says maybe death isn&rsquo;t the end.&quot;<br /> - Andrew Greeley

No, I really appreciate all your comments. It's nice to have someone who leaves in depth responses to my work. I'm really glad you've liked it. :)

tara* BRONZE said...
on Jan. 31 2010 at 9:05 pm
tara* BRONZE, Westcliffe, Colorado
3 articles 0 photos 11 comments
alright you probably think i'm some psycho for leaving you a bajillion comments but I came upon your poetry and I am in love with it! You are an amazing writer. P.S. I am also madly in love with e.e. cummings' poetry, so that made this one that much better :)