I’ve stayed in the front yard all my life. I want a peek at the back Where it’s rough and untended and hungry weed grows. A girl gets sick of a rose. I want to go in the back yard now And maybe down the alley, To where the charity children play. I want a [...]
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Brooks: a song in the front yard
Posted in -all posts-, sexual identities, tagged childhood, children, culture, culture wars, famous poets, Gwendolyn Brooks, longing, naughty, poetry, prostitution, sexuality, sheltered, sheltered childhood, sheltered children on October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Do I have a face?
Posted in -all posts-, sexual identities, tagged asexuality, fruit, mirror, mirror world, mirrors, plums, poetry, reflection, reflections, self, sexuality on June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Do I have a face? I don’t know. I’ve never seen one on me. But she, the one on the other side of whatever divides our world from the mirror… she has a face. A worldly face. A mix Of what pleased my grandfathers. A face that must taste like a plum whose tantalizing texture [...]
Window
Posted in -all posts-, sexual identities, tagged ace, asexuality, asexy, AVEN, black ring, chastity, perverts, virgin, virginity on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If there is a window to my soul, it looks into the bathroom. It frosts in the summer, steams in the winter, soaks from the outside, and cracks when provoked, just like any old window. Mr. Gawker, there’s a lot of me to see, but don’t expect to see much.
Mass Never Begins
Posted in -all posts-, sexual identities, tagged Advent, chastity, Christianity, church, God, heterosexual, heterosexuals, Jesus, loneliness, Love, love poem, love poetry, maiden, Mass, poem, poetry, poets, prayer, religion, romance, romantic, sex, sexuality, single, spirituality, straight, virgin, virginity, virgins, woman, women, worship on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Every time I’m lonely, that’s a prayer. Indeed I’ve taught my spirit to pray constantly And fanatically, with a scourge. The bell in the virgin’s steeple is never tired Of calling her to Mass with its sad Alto pewter song never varying its pitch Or lyric: “Come! Come! Come! Come!” It dwells on its duty [...]
Daphne
Posted in -all posts-, sexual identities, tagged asexual, asexuality, AVEN, coping, Daphne, molestation, mythology, rape, sex, sexual harassment, sexuality, trees on June 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
He reached for my breast. I did what Daphne did: withdrew my beauty into myself, let my skin harden around it, and cast my roots into the ground. My hair kept swaying like a loose woman, but I stood willow-still. He grabbed nothing but a budding leaf for his crown.
Ovid/Kline: Daphne’s Transformation
Posted in -all posts-, sexual identities, tagged abuse, ancient rome, Apollo and Daphne, asexual, asexuality, asexuals, chastity, Classics, Daphne, Greek mythology, Greek myths, molestation, myth, myths, Ovid, rape, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, trees on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
He would have said more as timid Peneïs ran, still lovely to see, leaving him with his words unfinished. The winds bared her body, the opposing breezes in her way fluttered her clothes, and the light airs threw her streaming hair behind her, her beauty enhanced by flight. But the young god could no longer [...]
Maiden Voyage
Posted in -all posts-, sexual identities, tagged abstinence, asexual, asexuality, asexy, best friend, chastity, desire, Love, love poem, lust, relationships, sex, sexuality, spinster, tradition, virgin, virginity on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You say she is no friend of mine, because We are on separate islands – she on love, And I on chastity. No, we are both At sea. But she can swim in depths I cannot Dip my foot in. I am on my drafty Ship of innocence above the salty Skin of water. And [...]
To Have and to Hold
Posted in -all posts-, sexual identities, tagged asexuality, breathing, celibacy, chastity, emotions, mantra, marriage, meditation, people, problem, problem-solving, psychology, relationship, relationship problem, relationship problems, relationships, religion, sex, sexuality, spirituality, virgin, virginity on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How thrilling, To have without holding. But, God – To hold without having!
