- Non-Erotic Poetry
- East of Eden
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expelled from fleshy paradises,
thrust into an uncaring world,
tethered to bodies
that cry out in anguish for
foodwaterwarmthlove.
We frantically
try to placate them,
tiptoeing along
a crumbling cliff,
knowing each step
could be our last, and so
we take refuge
in the comfort of skin,
seeking to regain for just a moment
our fleshy Edens,
and thus
we are born.
- COMMENTS
lorencinoalmost 13 years agoA somewhat of a bleak cliché. Poetically well crafted, with imagery that works effortlessly, the poem becomes a tyrannical disempowerment of human agency. The poet accepts meaninglessness as the inescapable human condition.
I watched his birth
a keen struggle
against a womb reluctant
to release its charge
into a world this child sought
with eager energy
twelveoonealmost 13 years agoif you think about this, how would you rank it on the cliche-o-meter?
4 is what i left
