[1784] You

Guest poem submitted by Jennifer Cushion <jinnele@>:

Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too late in my head,
so I went to bed, dreaming you hard, hard, woke with your name,
like tears, soft, salt, on my lips, the sound of its bright syllables
like a charm, like a spell.

                                   Falling in love
is glamorous hell; the crouched, parched heart
like a tiger ready to kill; a flame's fierce licks under the skin.
Into my life, larger than life, beautiful, you strolled in.
I hid in my ordinary days, in the long grass of routine,
in my camouflage rooms. You sprawled in my gaze,
staring back from anyone's face, from the shape of a cloud,
from the pining, earth-struck moon which gapes at me

and I open the bedroom door. The curtains stir. There you are
on the bed, like a gift, like a touchable dream.

	-- Carol Ann Duffy

I feel this poem captures the initial stages of resistance people go through
when they fall in love.  It is so much easier to pretend it isn't happening,
to immerse yourself in "ordinary days".  Yet, despite all the efforts, the
person invades your every thought.  The first verse in particular conveys
this.

Jennifer Cushion.

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From: "Mallika Chellappa" <mchellappa@>

 =A0=0AGreat poem, and  I echo Dale's feelings=0Aabout a God who would punish.=0A=0AMost religions do have a place for=0Ahuman or animal sacrfice; maybe this=0Awas to cull the polulation and ensure the=0Asurvival of the fittest? At any rate, it=0Aseems too extreme to me, and good planning=0Awould ensure one never had to resort to=0Athis measure.=0A=0AOn another front, maybe our picture of a=0A"good God" is just wishful thinking? Maybe=0Athe powers-that-be are ethically neutral?=0A=0AMallika=0A=0A

From: "Mallika Chellappa" <mchellappa@>

 =A0=0AGreat poem, and  I echo Dale's feelings=0Aabout a God who would punish.=0A=0AMost religions do have a place for=0Ahuman or animal sacrfice; maybe this=0Awas to cull the polulation and ensure the=0Asurvival of the fittest? At any rate, it=0Aseems too extreme to me, and good planning=0Awould ensure one never had to resort to=0Athis measure.=0A=0AOn another front, maybe our picture of a=0A"good God" is just wishful thinking? Maybe=0Athe powers-that-be are ethically neutral?=0A=0AMallika=0A=0A