Sunday afternoons at 20 Maresfield Gardens

By TropicalSnowstorm

Not everything
is sexual.

Sometimes
…

a lion is just hungry.
Without trace of
Oedipal
motive it licks bones.

You scream
…
…
it yawns.

-- by TropicalSnowstorm, 18 March 2015

**Structured poetry in the new Lupus Teleform

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Published on Thursday, March 19, 2015. Filed under: "Philosophical" and "Poetry"

Author's Note:

For a good time call +44 20 7435 2002. (This was written for the 'Dial â€œ1â€ for poetry contest'.)

Awards

Comments on "Sunday afternoons at 20 Maresfield Gardens"

On Sunday, January 7, 2018, carlosjackal (3011) wrote:

Still so good on reread after reread. Enough to make me jealous :)
On Sunday, June 28, 2015, MercyRain (105) wrote:

yes, maybe just maybe the lion was more interested in that yummy marrow inside the boner than the girl screaming....
On Sunday, June 28, 2015, MercyRain (105) wrote:

dunno why i said girl, maybe leftover from just finishing watching Cabin Fever a few minutes ago...
A former member wrote: Loved the poem the meaning runs deep but the style that was developed by lupus I want to check out.
A former member wrote: very nice....sometimes a cigar is just a cigar... ;) masterful use of the style, congrats!
On Tuesday, March 31, 2015, carlosjackal (3011) wrote:

I love the humour in these lines. A more than worthy winner.
On Monday, March 30, 2015, lupus tenebrae (872) wrote:

I was excited at the mere prospect of having you enter this contest, because I knew the end result would be something worth waiting for. Summer's piece was amazing in its own right, but yours was the closest to what I had in mind. You took this foreign (sometimes irritating) style of mine and made it your own, I expected no less. To be honest, I knew from the start that there wouldn't be many entrants, but to see that my contest had yielded the artistry that it did more than makes up for my previous disappointment. So, congratulations, you've certainly earned the accolades.
On Tuesday, March 31, 2015, TropicalSnowstorm (1703) wrote:

You developed a very cool style, as you say, with "endless possibilities". I love it! The Lupus Teleform will definitely be revisited. : ) Ciao, T/S
A former member wrote: Incredibly clever! Every word here was chosen with care. The title is impressive & ties perfectly with the heart of the work. Love the animalistic qualities used to illustrate primal instinct. Very provocative; the punctuation compliments the precision of your syntax. 10!
On Wednesday, March 18, 2015, Star (920) wrote:

I can smell flowers in the distance. Lovely piece.
A former member wrote: i absolutely love the unabashed and unapologetic carnality of this. all ego removed. stunning piece.