RAIN

Tags

climate change, erotic, poem, poetry, Sexual, the body, wordplay

RAIN

we talked climate
change
we went Plato
and Socrates
philosopher and
best disciple

we went
Monsoon

we fell like a tropical rainstorm
in the Garden of Eden

we ran
with the animals

we shapeshifted our bodies
conjunction disjunction
exploring every
function
analytically
scientifically

we came to the
conclusion

that the body
is a sign

points beyond
limitation

and yet
the realization that
there is

the unique moment where
word
is flesh, flesh
is word

the rest
melting in the rain

AND THE LIGHTNING

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goddess, love, poem, poetry, Sensual, sensuous, sexual symbolism, Water, Water power astrological, woman

AND THE LIGHTNING

you are naked
practicing the goddess

you are not
there yet

though the rain pours down
flows over you
leaving you
pristine

and the lightning strikes
everywhere
but does not
touch you

soon you
will have learnt, incorporated
such power

that they will think,
naturally assume
all rain, all storm
all lightning

emanates
from you

GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION

Tags

Desire, physics, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, Sexual, wordplay

GRAVITY OF
THE SITUATION

what warping gravity
blessed you
with such curvature?

and yet
it is all
so relative

limited by the
flow of
desire

rippling through the channel
of space-time itself

bringing home to
me
needle rising
counter counting

the gravity
of the situation

PISCES GIRL

Tags

Astrological, erotic, poem, poetry, sexual symbolism, Water, Water power astrological

PISCES GIRL

Pisces girl
your eyes are fathoms deep

your sun-baked skin
dancing before me

I think of how one
taps with a spoon to crack
that surface

dig into that soft, creamy
luscious
dessert des dieux

Pisces woman
is
succor
most incredible
sustenance most sacred

taste
mysterious, magical, mystical
beyond your
limited
capacity
for belief

SOUP

Tags

Healing, poem, poetry, Sexual, sexual symbolism

SOUP

my head
feels like soup
thick and
discombobulated
camouflage
coloured
(like an
Eastern Front
tank)

no we
are not talking
consommé here
thin, delicate
and lucid

no the
heavy stuff

the stuff that leaves me
needing your touch
for a bit
of salvation

to put my
mind and
body at
one
(answering
decisively that
philosophical problem)

the sunlight, the poetry
pouring out
those slim, music
conductor’s, baton-
wise fingers

restoring the parts
that ordinary run
of the mill
and kitchen mortals

lack the insight to
figure exist

AH YES

Tags

Metaphor, poem, poetry, Rimbaud, synesthesia, wordplay

AH, YES

Ah, yes, Rimbaud
synesthesia
can be
a bitch

I watch you sinking
absinthe after absinthe
coupling that yellow-green taste
to the smell of
the anise
sound of
that unreal colour

as it
circulates, investigates
does
its delicious damage

helping to couple tastes, colours, smells,
sounds
kinesthetic feelings of
movement
(real
or imagined)

and me
in the meanwhile
I am ducking
blue

praying for yellow
that sublime sunshine babbling
banana yellow
whose vowel
sound could
not be more open
more full
throated

like the pleasure taken in
your body’s willing warm reception
as opposed to its
austere
spiritual
rejection

for which we need
cold palette (for your
palate) of
high-
frequency, short-
wave of
astral azure, indigo, cerulean
every shade of sky
and sea
that comes
in
true (and
sometimes deathly) blue

INDIAN OCEAN RAIN

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Durban, Innocence, love, Mahikeng, poem, poetry, Sensual, South African, The Fall, The Garden of Eden

INDIAN OCEAN RAIN

they tell me it’s raining
in Mahikeng

the town has become
Venice of the semi-desert

the roads torn up by
the minor flood
but soon
the dust will swallow
it always does

whilst you and I
are here in Durban
standing illicit in
this very different rain

a summer deluge soaks us
and so no
choice but to
resort to skin

perhaps more than
just our bodies, perhaps
our souls washed by
that warm Indian
ocean rain

and he we are
almost like Adam and Eve
in Eden celebrating
their first rain storm

the lightning from
sky to ground
that just
an icon
of the lightning between them

the raw electricity that courses
through them
manifestation
of an innocence now
beyond our conception

so badly, in that great mythology,
did we fall

so completely lost the memory
of those wilder, instinctive pleasures

which we, in our sublime ignorance,
assure each other that
we cannot but feel

SHE

Tags

Ocean, poem, poetry, power, sea, sexual symbolism, woman orgasm, wordplay

SHE

she thought
she had become the ocean

felt that she had
received mastery of the heavens

as the goddess of rain
the sky streamed
with life-giving
droplets

so powerful
this conviction

in the rapture of
her joy

no mere male mortal
like you or I

might tell
her otherwise

SAME

Tags

love, poem, poetry, sexual symbolism, wordplay

SAME

we watched
the Sun
going down
knowing,
presuming
it would come
back up again

sneakily,
behind our backs

we watched me
enter, you be entered

nothing
sneaky about this
it near
ceremonious,
almost triumphant

in our arrogance
seeing our
worlds twinned

Moon, star
orbiting around us
catching our
rhythm

Oh such
arrogance to assume
everything
changed
all
so different

and yet as
was
said and
is here
writ

this day
and night

like
none other

so strange
so special

of flesh and
spirit

extraordinarily
same

EVERYONE

Tags

Humanity, poem, poetry, sexy

EVERYONE

“Everyone wants a lover like that”
George Michael, TOO FUNKY

everyone longs for
cosmic seduction

against a lifetime of mundane
just a moment will do

everyone wants to be
swept across the galaxy, smash
through every ceiling

find that thing in the self
they otherwise
might fail
to believe

everyone wants to
be no one, nothing, everyone,
everything
feel it flash
through them
at light speed

proof indeed of Heaven
if this here, now
by some less
definitive name