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 good time today.
They do some wonderful things.
They [...]
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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
one licks wet without breaking the rubbery surface
to see how [...]
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 so long, we never
Quite [...]
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 I am [...]
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!
