- Erotic Poetry
- O Absalom
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Click hereO ABSALOM!
O Absalom,
ensnared by your long hair in the
boughs of an oak,
pierced through the heart three times
yet your nature was born only to please.
I, pulled into your mysteries
panting now, yours answer to my heart.
Abandoned by love, given over to lust
charged with stolen rapture
dizzy as a dervish,
one hand upward to Heaven
one hand spilling to Earth
skirts stiffened with sins hard as stone
corrupted over a life time and now
flayed on an unending mandala.
Mystery of Life, unstoppable desire.
O beautiful Absalom, we float upon a divine river
entangled in the reeds of human desire.
This is our nature, this our calling while
flesh answers to flesh.
What quarter be given when the heart is
overwhelmed by passion’s excess?
Lie still -- let the waters cleanse our loins
the mud of the banks soothe our wounds,
let our blood mingle with the floating grasses,
our hearts sink beneath the surface.
Let the rivers of Babylon
Carry us away.
Jane Kohut-Bartels
Copyrighted, 2008
- COMMENTS
WickedEveover 15 years agoInteresting poem. The title caught my attention. I immediately thought of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. There was an Absalom in The Miller's Tale.
