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Joined: Jun 2007
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Parakeet
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Parakeet
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My Soul in Search of Divine Romance I looked in the river & the river just kept rolling on out to the sea. I looked in the ocean & the ocean was just too big to see across. I looked in many eyes & saw nothing but the blues. I looked in the sky & the stars got caught in my corneas. I looked in a book & the words just snaked across the page. I looked in men's hearts & in women’s hearts & saw bottomless pits of darkness.
I listened to the wind & heard not one word that sounded like a lover's confession, so I listened to music pounded out on a piano flowing out of a guitar & men's throats & women's throats & found no lovers. I listened to liars who made love as useful as a moth-eaten sweater, whose affection was just slick, swollen meat shafts & I pushed & pushed until I realized this is not love, this is friction.
I stop listening today, now I will wait. Only Thou knowst how to love me but I don't yet know how to understand— the mud of this world sticks to my thighs & the slime of lovers’ tricks for over half a century—
but today I renounce it all— I will no longer look for Thee in the disappointing automatons who inhabit this world. I will not listen to the tacky voices that pollute the hallways of my ears. Let them all grab & squabble & grow fat & drunk on the blood of desire.
I renounce it all— I cut out my eyeballs, & hack my eardrums to pieces, & flay my skin, & chop out my tongue, & snuff out my nose, because my soul has no need to carry such baggage traveling in search of Divine Love.
Last edited by Linda Sue - Poet; 01/25/14 01:59 PM.
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