So Quite New

Since I'm in the mood to have more of ee cummings, why not something erotic?



People have this impression that poems are just a bunch of sweet nothings recited to loved ones when they are proposing marriage or something written on Valentine cards. Or poems are words to use to impress someone, or to appear eloquent. I think poetry is the most plagiarized of literature. Next to academic research papers, I mean. But that's not literature. Anyway, I'm veering away from the topic...



Good poetry is not about eloquence, but feelings, and images it invokes in the reader. At least that's what a good poem is to me. I used to write poetry, but then I began worshipping these poets and I fear that my insecurities overrides my passion to write poetry. Maybe someday I'll start writing again. For now, I'm content to drown in the words these poets write. They are beautiful, profoundly simple ...and it may sound cliche but I don't have words to describe their brand of poetry.



My favorites are Dickinson, Cummings, Millay, Neruda and old poets like Byron, Shakespeare, and Shelley. But today, I'd like to shatter that impression that poetry is boring. That it is for geeks like me who adores dead people who used to write beautiful words. Well, you're wrong.



I, a certified repressed perv, know many titles of erotic poems. But here's my favorite. Read it and weep. Or, not weep exactly, just let your imagination flow, and if you don't think this is hot, there's something seriously wrong with you.





i like my body when it is with your

body. It is so quite new a thing,

Muscles better and nerves more.

i like your body. i like what it does,

i like its hows. i like to feel the spine

of your body and its bones, and the trembling

-firm-smooth ness and which i will

again and again and again

kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,

i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz

of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes

over parting flesh....And eyes big love-crumbs,



and possibly i like the thrill



of under me you so quite new



-- ee cummings