Untitled Poem about Love

By Stranger

There is a beauty known only to the blind
There is a moan heard only by the deaf
There is a love that only the ugly may be sure of

A love beyond the grasp of vanity or lust
A love that cannot be measured in pounds or inches
A love not driven by appetite or ego

There is a place the caress of a hand
or finger cannot touch or penetrate
There is a place that cannot be found through a breast
or felt with tongue or lips
There is place our bodies cannot go

There is a warmth that runs too deep
for arm or penis to reach
There is a hole that flesh cannot fill

We have wandered there
you and I
Perhaps at the same time
Perhaps parts of us much deeper have
Brushed against one another, there

Perhaps it was felt upon the surface
Where things are real and finite
Like the meat of the heart
or the cracking of a bone

Where our wants and cravings
are immediate, and demanding
of something solid

Something we can scar or harm
or lose, or ignore,
or spill the fluids of passion upon

But why so much talk of things that do not matter
We speak of dreams and smoke and thoughts
and the shadows of thoughts
We speak of things that cannot be
 

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Copyright 2003 Stranger
Published on Wednesday, April 6, 2016.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • A former member wrote: i enjoyed this write it was superb!

  • totaltrip On Sunday, October 5, 2008, totaltrip (36)By person wrote:

    :)

  • OLd SouL On Tuesday, April 20, 2004, OLd SouL (717)By person wrote:

    I think this feeling/thought is nearly indescribable... so understand my quandary when I try to express my appreciation through a comment... so this is me lame... Great freakin' job man. :::OLd

  • Mistress Morbid On Saturday, February 28, 2004, Mistress Morbid (405)By person wrote:

    speechless....

  • A former member wrote: I've read this poem so many times before I became a member, and it never ceases to amaze me. It's definitely one of my favorites here

  • A former member wrote: it makes me smile.. I always ponder if humanity is capable of a love beyond the flesh.. mhm.

  • IceDragoness On Friday, September 26, 2003, IceDragoness (193)By person wrote:

    This is a very beautiful love poem, which at this time in my life gives me both hope of finding and dispair that i'll never find such a connection with another ~Dawn

  • A former member wrote: this is amazing and powerful. wonderfully written.

  • DarkPoet On Monday, July 28, 2003, DarkPoet (229)By person wrote:

    Excuse me for sounding 90's but you rock. I'm sending this one to the missus. Scholar

  • KittyStryker On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, KittyStryker (710)By person wrote:

    this is another incredible piece.

  • Jonas On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, Jonas (715)By person wrote:

    last comment i left i talked about tingles of empathy... now i talk about the tingles plus a tear shed, nostaligically and regretably, because these words again ring true for me

  • Jonas On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, Jonas (715)By person wrote:

    pure, crystaline blue beauty contained in sadness like a snowglobe on god's mantle

  • maddin foxxxy On Friday, May 2, 2003, maddin foxxxy (358)By person wrote:

    just breathtaking...need a minute to breath it out...i've never read from you...i fuckin wonder why?!

  • Aurora_Light On Thursday, May 8, 2003, Aurora_Light (472)By person wrote:

    wow love is indeed a powerful and specail thing and i agree it's used to often in this world great poem

  • SnowQueen On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, SnowQueen (59)By person wrote:

    What an amazing poem. I'm in shock. You've obviously been in a deep love before.. love your work.

  • GothicBlack On Sunday, April 27, 2003, GothicBlack (186)By person wrote:

    hmm.. when someone says its a love poem, I think a mushy, lustful poem but there are a FEW only a very LITTLE number of "love" poems in which I like. This would be one of them This describes something beyond love. Its such an over used word...its sad it

  • A former member wrote: i really enjoyed ur poem! love poems are likely to be my favorite. it was a deep poem... loved it.

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