DE RERUM NATURA

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metaphoric, Metaphysical, physics, poem, poetry, science, sex, Sexual, wordplay

DE RERUM NATURA

we were scientific
about the nature
of our relationship

discussed
the physics of coffee

the biological morphology
of caffeine in our bodies

and how we
should drown in
one gulp

and rush off
to the “laboratory”
to experiment

OR SHOULD I SAY (AS A MAN OF CATHOLIC TASTES)

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Catholic, identity, innuendo, love, Metaphysical, poem, poetry, Protestant, religious, Sexual, spiritual, wordplay

OR SHOULD I SAY
(AS A MAN OF CATHOLIC TASTES)

when does our spiritual
familiarity
convert
to
physical?

sorry this issue
to resurrect

but here we are
at the altar of our devotion
and mutual idolatry

about to
partake
of each other’s bread
share
each other’s wine

one of us
(as everything is consumed
with relish
not a crumb, not
a drop
left to fall
from this table)

versed in the mindset of perfect symbolism
the other
inclined to ideas of
divine alchemy

absolute transformation of substance
in the re-writing of categories

which, as some swift satirist
may have said,
is but the same beauty
viewed from
both ends

embracing
complementary angles

dialectics of truth in respect of
this business
always necessitating

interpenetration of opposites,
or
should I
say

saucy shapeshifting such as is required
to embrace as
shared reality from
opposite sides?

SMELLS LIKE KURT COBAIN

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Consciousness, Creativity, Desire, erotic, female, History, love, Metaphor, Muse, philosophical, poem, poetry, Sexual, Sexual innuendo, sexual symbolism, spiritual, wordplay

SMELLS LIKE KURT COBAIN

“entertain us!”
Nirvana: “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

you know
something
special
is happening

animal vegetable mineral
intellectual centripetal

comic
epic
doubly ironic

and above
(and below all)

sufficient, efficient, refulgent, indulgent
magnificent

yes,
magnificent even

when you dream deeper
go deeper

and the deeper you go
the deeper inside

the deeper that feeling
she has gone so much deeper
she so
deeply
inside you

hearts, clubs,
diamonds, spades

she, you
have not touched bottom

so much
depth to go

SAPIR-WHORF

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conceptual, Language, linguistic, love, perception, philosophical, poem, poetry, Sexual

SAPIR-WHORF

need to invent
re-
invent

so much: perhaps
I should start
with a list

bullet-point it all
my need for
a new language
a new
poetry

in order
to express you
linguistically
caress you

all the better to
love you with
my little red
riding
wearing that
scarlet dress I
bought you in
Johannesburg

new modifiers, qualifiers,
participles (dangling and
non-dangling)
concepts so
conceptual breakthrough
they are the likes
of which
ain’t ever been
seen
(likes of which
the world
never seen)

QUEEN OF CUPS

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Beauty, goddess, poem, poetry, sexual symbolism, Tarot, Water, Water power astrological

QUEEN OF CUPS

queen of cups
the water
loves you

and I feel
my thoughts
all heading South
(deep below that
girdle known
as Tropic
of Cancer)

the water licks you
into glorious shape

and I
can die now
having absorbed
this vision

nothing my old
tired poetry can do
to capture
in word or phrase

this desire, this beauty
pure, unadulterated

AFRO-DITE

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Africa, Aphrodite, Beauty, Desire, goddess, poem, poetry, Venus, Water, Water power astrological

AFRO-DITE

friend, do not call
out to Olympus for
your Greek Aphrodite

whose star
morning and evening
brightest in the heavens
goes by
her Roman name

word has it — and more than just word —
shared collective vision
tells me that
far on her seashell
she has travelled
to return to
Africa her
most sacred home

where her
love and beauty would
threaten to
soften us
make us slaves to
the poem
she has always been

she who
put Helen to shame,
and sister Clytemnestra
beguiling the worth, enriching
the very Earth
as the water that
is her element
begs to take the
shape
of her frame

SALSA

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poem, poetry, sexual symbolism, wordplay

SALSA

drank all
your coffee

imbibed your
hot chocolate

had too many
mojitos on
your account

left me
totally clueless
about the tango,
twist, lambada

the taste of
hot salsa
permeating
my mouth

RAIN

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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

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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