Art by Kurt Solmssen
Description by Nissim Ezekiel
I will begin – but how should I begin? –
with hair, your hair,
remembered hair,
touched, smelt, lying silent there
upon your head, beneath your arms,
and then between your thighs a wonder
of hair, secret
in light and in darkness
bare, suffering with joy
kisses light as air.
And I will close – but is this fair? –
with dawn and you
reluctantly
binding up your hair.
Other poems on love that I loved:
"How can I forget
that evening? As soon as you came,
the moon rose,
midnight poured like rain
on my charred body.
You emerged at intervals
from the blue mist
your sighs had the fragrance of all the world's flowers,
and you drew away, quietly
my hands from myself."
-Sriradha, Ramakanta Rath
"At least embarrassment is not an imitation. It's intimacy for beginners, the orgasm no one cares to fake. I almost admire it." -from About Face by Alice Fulton
"I’m tempted to ask
what you see in him.
Although you probably
see the good that I see
I wonder if you realize
how much he is my handiwork,
or which of the qualities
you daydream about in class
are the ones that I take pride in,
his cordiality, for example,
or love of silliness."
-from To My Son’s Girlfriend by Michael Milburn
"As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love."
-from Small Wire by Anne Sexton
"You and I
Have so much love,
That it
Burns like a fire,
In which we bake a lump of clay
Molded into a figure of you
And a figure of me.
Then we take both of them,
And break them into pieces,
And mix the pieces with water,
And mold again a figure of you,
And a figure of me.
I am in your clay.
You are in my clay.
In life we share a single quilt.
In death we will share one bed."
-Married Love by Kuan Tao-Sheng
(Translated from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung)
Recommended Listening:
Thunder Follows - mutual benefit
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Hrishikesh Hirway's new podcast about creative partnership
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“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.” -Charles Schulz