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FIRST KISS poem in selection of poems on various topics and themes, including America, Japan, Malawi and Guantanamo.
This FIRST KISS poem is part of the Genghis Lotus Poetry Collection, a selection of poems free to read online. The collection includes school poems, city poems, nature poems, war poems, cancer poems, death poems, and, additionally, other poems, assorted poems on various topics and themes, this being one of those other poems. Webmaster for this site is poet Hugh Cook, born in Britain, educated in New Zealand, and the author of, amongst other works, the fantasy series Chronicles of an Age of Darkness. |
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Her face is full of angles and bones; Our teeth click In a tangle of tongue and lip; Her eyes stare at my face, Seeing nothing in particular And certainly not me — Yet her eyes a full of dumb Adoration; Her fingers Touch my face and my lips, Touch my face and my lips, And she murmers, Your lips are divine — Divine! And I wonder if it is always This heavy-breathing comic book, Tongue meeting tongue in a swirl of bacteria, The drunken hour of midnight Breathing nectar-flower language Supported by the electrical passion of music — And however I try To gloss her hair and her lips, To bring the conventions to my lips, I can't shut out The click, click, click Of teeth and of numbers — The computations and permutations Of the bitter angel, Analysis, The truthsayer who never sleeps. |
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