All Comments on 'Bruises Paint My Body'

A pleasant read in spite of being predominantly straightforward descriptive.

These two lines though really stood out, the solitary metaphor in the entire poem.. And a rather good one

"Starbursts of pleasure and pain

Bloom like hothouse flowers"

or foreplay to the utmost, TK U MLJ LV NV

tazz317: Does it matter? One or the other, both? It's about pain becoming pleasure, becoming a release.

live4passion: thank you for the compliments. I think, however, that straightforward description is a strong point and was done purposefully. I think so much poetry (&prose) is written with overdone metaphors and there becomes so much obfuscation in the sound of pretty words strung together that the meaning gets lost.

Much of what I write has happened to me or someone I know, so I think the story telling deserves to be told and doesn't necessarily need to come with extra bells and whistles.

ARE YOU AWARE, ONE CAN SELF FLAGELATE THEMSELVE WITH PAIN FOR IT TO BECOME AN ORGASM OR A CLIMATIC EJACULATION. ....ie DO A BUNCH OF STANDING SIT UPS BY BENDING YOUR KNEES IN TO A SQUATTING. I KNOW THIS IMPERIALLY. RESPECTFULLY TK U MLJ LV NV

but that is a WAG on my part. Adios TK U MLJ LV NV