The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Fri 12/16/05)

When First We Faced, And Touching Showed

When first we faced, and touching showed
How well we knew the early moves,
Behind the moonlight and the frost,
The excitement and the gratitude,
There stood how much our meeting owed
To other meetings, other loves.

The decades of a different life
That opened past your inch-close eyes
Belonged to others, lavished, lost;
Nor could I hold you hard enough
To call my years of hunger-strife
Back for your mouth to colonise.

Admitted: and the pain is real.
But when did love not try to change
The world back to itself--no cost,
No past, no people else at all--
Only what meeting made us feel,
So new, and gentle-sharp, and strange?

Philip Larkin

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:pals: :hi: :hug:

RL

The tenderness of his first embrace that's still there every time we touch.

I'm very grateful that he is all that he is.

a new love. Best feeling in the world. Makes one dizzy.
Thanks RL for the reminder.

inch-close eyes

:sighing:

Thank you, RL, once again! :hi:

"for your mouth to colonise..."

that one made me exhale...

:hi:

RL

how in that stage of a relationship all the senses function so sharply? No wonder so many beautiful words are written about romantic love. It's a fleeting beast.

and then they dull with routine and boredom...

or do they?

:shrug:

RL

Oh boy, this one really hits the spot.....it is so true!

It is beautiful.......

Thank you


:loveya: :hug: :pals:

:hi:

RL

You post this, the day after the proposed Milwaukee meet-up thread...
:loveya:

:hug: :loveya: :spank:

RL

Gave me goosebumps and had me sighing at the same time. :loveya: :hug:

I wish I was 1/2 that good :D

RL

I really do appreciate your posts, and look forward to the daily poem every day. :hug: