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judecorpArticulacy of fingers, the language of the deaf and dumb, signing on the body body longing. Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name into my shoulders, referenced me with your mark. The pads of your fingers have become printing blocks, you tap a message on to my skin, tap meaning into my body. Your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart beat before I met you, I relied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm, you play upon me, drumming me taut. ~ Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
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Habitation
Date: 2003-03-09 08:45 pm (UTC)a house or even a tent
it is before that, and colder:
the edge of the forest, the edge
of the desert
the unpainted stairs
at the back where we squat
outside, eating popcorn
the edge of the receding glacier
where painfully and with wonder
at having survived even
this far
we are learning to make fire
~Margaret Atwood
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Date: 2003-03-12 10:25 am (UTC)Your voice, like the bells of angels.
Your breath, like the sweetest of all.
Your heart, wrapped up around my own.
The touch of you upon my skin.
The warmth of you upon my lips.
The electric blue of your heart.
My hero. My love. My inspiration.
Art.
My True Love Has My Heart
Date: 2003-03-17 07:22 am (UTC)By just exchange one for the other given;
I hold [hers] dear and mine [she] cannot miss;
There never was a better bargain driven.
My true-love hath my heart and I have [hers],
[Her] heart in me keeps [her] and me in one;
My heart in [her] [her] thoughts and senses guides;
[She] loves my heart for once it was [her] own,
I cherish [hers] because in me it bides.
My true-love hath my heart and I have [hers].
~Philip Sydney
Because She Would Ask Me Why I Loved Her
Date: 2003-03-24 11:33 am (UTC)No eyes would ever gaze in eyes;
If all our tale were told in speech
No mouths would wander each to each.
Were spirits free from mortal mesh
And love not bound in hearts of flesh
No aching breasts would yearn to meet
And find their ecstasy complete.
For who is there that lives and knows
The secret powers by which [s]he grows?
Were knowledge all, what were our need
To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?
Then seek not, sweet, the "If" and "Why"
I love you now until I die.
For I must love because I live
And life in me is what you give.
~Christopher Brennan
Jenny Kissed Me
Date: 2003-03-26 07:42 pm (UTC)Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief! who love to get
Sweets into your list, put that in.
Say I'm weary, say I'm sad;
Say that health and wealth have miss'd me;
Say I'm growing old, but add-
Jenny kiss'd me.
~- Leigh Hunt
Night Thoughts
Date: 2003-03-27 12:07 pm (UTC)Stars, you are unfortunate, I pity you,
Beautiful as you are, shining in your glory,
Who guide seafaring men through stress and peril
And have no recompense from gods or mortals,
Love you do not, nor do you know what love is.
Hours that are aeons urgently conducting
Your figures in a dance through the vast heaven,
What journey have you ended in this moment,
Since lingering in the arms of my beloved
I lost all memory of you and midnight.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Date: 2003-03-31 07:27 am (UTC)Are frosty channels to a muted stream,
And out of all our burning their remains
No feeblest spark to fire us, even in dream,
This be our solace: that it was not said
When we were young and warm and in our prime,
Upon our couch we lay as lie the dead,
Sleeping away the unreturning time.
O sweet, O heavy-lidded, O my love,
When morning strikes her spear upon the land,
And we must rise and arm us and reprove
The insolent daylight with a steady hand,
Be not discountenanced if the knowing know
We rose from rapture but an hour ago.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay
Evening Song
Date: 2003-04-08 09:01 am (UTC)Look off, dear Love, across the sallow sands,
And mark yon meeting of the sun and sea;
How long they kiss in sight of all the lands,
Ah! longer, longer we.
Now, in the sea's red vintage melts the sun
As Egypt's pearl dissolved in rosy wine
And Cleopatra-night drinks all- 'tis done,
Love, lay thine hand in mine.
Come forth, sweet stars, and comfort heaven's heart,
Glimmer, ye waves, 'round else unlighted sands;
Oh night! divorce our sun and sky apart-
Never our lips, our hands.
~Sidney Lanier
The First Day
Date: 2003-04-21 07:10 am (UTC)First hour, first moment of your meeting me;
If bright or dim the season it might be;
Summer or winter for aught I can say.
So, unrecorded did it slip away,
So blind was i to see and to forsee,
So dull to mark the budding of my tree
That would not blossom, yet, for many a May.
If only I could recollect it! Such
A day of days! I let it come and go
As traceless as a thaw of bygone snow.
It seemed to mean so little, meant so much!
If only now I could recall that touch,
First touch of hand in hand! - Did one but know!
~Christina Rossetti
A Knight's Sleep
Date: 2003-08-19 01:25 pm (UTC)you have the strength of a thousand soldiers within one palm. My sweet angel so gentle and kind your galant spirit is what moves my mind. My love for you is so vast so deep only within your arms is where I choose to sleep.
Why Do You Sleep With Girls?
Date: 2003-09-16 08:03 am (UTC)(Jeannette Winterson, 1998)
Ruth
Date: 2003-10-19 10:30 am (UTC)Not in servility, but homage sweet,
Gladly inclined:-and with my bended knee
Think that my inward spirit bows to thee-
More proud indeed than when I stand or climb
Elsewhere:-there us no stature so sublime
As Love's in all the world, and e'en to kiss
The pedestal is still a better bliss
Than all ambitions. O! Love's lowest base
Is far above the reaching of disgrace
To shame this posture. Let me then draw nigh
Feet that have fared so nearly to the sky,
And when this duteous homage has been given
I will rise up and clasp the heart in Heaven.
~ Thomas Hood (1799-1845)