The Song of Ruth and Naomi

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DeniseNoe
DeniseNoe
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The Song of Ruth & Naomi
by
Denise Noe


This is the song
     of Ruth & Naomi
     Woman followed
          woman freely
Living in the desert
     Each carried
     a pocket of sea
     Slippery cavern
          called femininity

When Ruth
     loves Naomi
     she loves softness,
         fine silver hair
     the creases
     in multiplicity
         
Ruth cannot fear
     the wrinkling
     of her skin,
          the graying of hair
Aging holds no terrors
     for Ruth loves Naomi
     & loves what she will be

A good woman teaches a woman
     to love
     her femininity
A good woman teaches a woman
     confidence
     joy &
          ecstasy

Female body
     warm &
     warmly best
Oh Naomi! Teach the fountain,
     the wish &
     the crest!

When Naomi loves Ruth
She loves herself
     in memory
     Hills newborn &
          Flesh supple
Black jungle
     And the red sea
     parts in privacy
Ruth's  miracle
     for Naomi

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NafsAmaraNafsAmaraover 15 years ago
Wow

Nothing more; just wow!

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Well actually, thought and feeling and senses and ... and ...

Thank you!

KOLKOREKOLKOREalmost 16 years ago
About the biblical context

I enjoyed the erotic expression in the poem. I just wish you used a different couple as a reference. The direct allusion to the biblical text on which (I assume) the poem builds at least as a starting point worked against the poem not with it. I'll try to explain. The brevity of the bible is known for its flexibility in allowing numerous interpretations to fill the gaps. Still, not every thing goes. Anyone who has read the scroll of Ruth knows that the story of Ruth and Naomi comes immediately prior to one of the 'hottest' most touching and romantic love affairs in the bible -that is the story of Ruth and Boaz. The immediate and explicit context of Ruth and Naomi (her mother in law) is that of not being abandoned immediately after Mahlon, Ruth husbands death. A lesbian connection squeezed in between the death of her husband and the big story of this book, that of Ruth and Boaz, is just not one the text suggests, or in other words is not one of the legitimate gap fillers the text allows. Now David and Jonathan for example is a whole different story...

BOSTONFICTIONWRITERBOSTONFICTIONWRITERalmost 16 years ago
Wow!

Normally, I'm not at a loss for words.

I don't know what else to say, but...

"Wow!"

WickedEveWickedEvealmost 16 years ago
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This is really quite a good poem. And like Normal Jean wrote, I would also like to see you on literotica's poetry forum.

normal jeannormal jeanalmost 16 years ago
well, well!!

The bestowing of an E does not surprise me here. A job well done. Congratulations!

best wishes, and still would love to see you in and around the poetry forum. I know I could learn from you. Your style is clean and fresh and it is good to see someone giving a voice to those women of us who are less than blond and bony,yet there are those who are perfect and beautiful in their own ways, (regardless of what some people in various media outlets have decided is the definition of perfection). I don't know what else to say except I enjoyed your work and I apologize for babbling on). Keep up the good work :)

best wishes,

NJ