I Took a Lover

Due to much request from myspace friends, here you go. BTW, I have never claimed to be a poet... I'm a passionate person who finds herself bored in class often... so I write to distract myself. I don't need critiques... I tried to study poetry once and ended up hating it and didn't write for 2 years... I enjoy it once more and you guys keep asking for some more, so here you have it!
ALSO, this piece is fictional. Not that it's any of your business, but it very much so is.

When in Rome
I took a lover
who fucked me desperately
like we were
dying
And there on sweaty sheets
we had our funeral

When in Paris
I took a lover
who was more a stranger
than an intimate
but we explored
and drew maps
across each other's
bodies

When in London
I took a lover
who worshipped my body
and I, theirs
under candlelight showers
scorching our skin
in passionate love making

When in India
I took a lover
whose sex was art and
spirituality and our religion
So we came before
the Holies
of our bodies joined together

When at home
I took a lover
I loved myself
Skin against own skin
Always just
right.


(All photo rights purchased from iStockPhoto since God forbid you see any more pics of me after last video's complaints. lol!)

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• Art
• Poetry
• Kicesie
• Lover
• When
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• Rome
• Sex
• Sexuality

[ZeonTwilight]

I like it. Ehh. It's a good poem don't get me wrong, I'm just the type of person who notices odd things in songs and poems such as, in the case of this one, "Wow, this person is trying to sex up a person in every country perhaps? Is this a world record attempt?"

Sorry, I mean no harm in my comment, as I said, it's a good poem and I like it, I just can't stop myself from thinking things like that now and then.

[thelitcorner]

I haven't even been in most of those countries. The poem, at least at it's most basic nature, is about how every lover, or even just 'person you've loved' is unique and different. But that, loving yourself is most important and most constant. THAT is what was meant, at the base of it, when the poem was written.

[davidfromregina]

i really liked it it was very hot you have a way with words

[thelitcorner]

Yeah, sex is most common.... it's the every-day norm routine that couples get into. Love-making is sensual, agonizingly slow and overwhelmingly sensational. Fucking is fierce, fast, thrilling as hell, maybe a little 'dirty' (in a good way), etc.

[thelitcorner]

Exactly why I hate that people say there are 'rules' to poetry... some tricks that help play to the ear or eye, yes... but no rules!

[LukeTheRocker666]

This is brilliant!

[fnbetanco]

I remember you making the distinction between love making, sex and fucking. I obviously get how love making is diffenet but I've always thought of sex and fucking as the same thing. What's the difference in your opinion? Is fucking just dirtier and even further away from love making than sex?

[fnbetanco]

The truth is though that most of the time a poem has just as many meanings as the people who've read it. The same way everybody is unique because of our different experiences every poem has a different meaning for each individual.

[fnbetanco]

Well... I really don't think that a poem (or any piece of art for that matter) "should" have anything. I guess it should be aesthetically pleasing at least to the person that created it but besides that it could be anything. One could write down a series of words that only makes sense to him and even if nobody else gets it, to him it could be a moving poem.

[cre8edc8]

It's just so hot to hear.

[ZeonTwilight]

Ahhhh, I gotcha. Thanks for the clarification. I can be a little dense sometimes when it comes to poetry, though I'm capable of thinking metaphorically, sometimes things just go over my head.

Still, it was a nice poem, and thanks for clearing that up for me (Don't worry, even before that I knew that the literal interpretation of the poem my mind tossed at me was wrong, I'm not THAT dense ^_^;;)

[Ilikebikes1200]

Very creative. Keep up the good work.