something moves it is the eyeless terror reaching for your skin it is a hand cold rigid dying in the distance your skin also cold distant pale shroud in the dark stiffens turns defends it is a game played by children fingers creeping up the sheet in slow public terror of anticipation terror of desire how hard it is not to stumble walking when the need is to break into a run if I break trying not to touch your skin a damp ghost derived from a shape from the past grows hair nipples of cold pulls me down whitely into the night if I stumble 1 fear the living who do not come live in my hands desire that lost its shapes accidental small beginnings every woman I touch turns into you and I am starved for human contact
umashankar >From: jane bhandari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: [ZESTPoets] well poem >Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 06:23:26 +0100 (BST) > > >'Listening' reminded me of this poem I wrote about four years ago. it >combines childhood memories with those of a later date. Oddly, children >don't like it much, perhaps because of its hint of something nasty at the >bottom of the well. > >Jane Bhandari > > > >DEEP WELL > > > >Deep well, fern-furred, > >Reflects the distant sky > >Like a silver salver. > > > >We children looking down > >Saw our several heads > >Black and sharply drawn, > >Arranged on the salver: > >A bloodless beheading. > > > >Someone dropped a stone, > >And Salome danced away > >And took our heads with her, > >Left the frightened sky > >Shivering in the green dark. > > > >Looking into a well > >With my small daughter, > >Thin branches laced the water: > >Our disembodied heads > >Caught up in their net > >Until a frog stone-skipped > >Across the bright water, made > >Overlapping rings instead, > >And the falling splash > >Pulled more sky > >Down into the well. > > > >And afterwards > >We heard the splash > >Climbing back up the well. > > > > > >Jane Bhandari > > > >For some reason this hasn't got to the main zestpoets page...try again! > > > > > > >--------------------------------- >How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE >with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos _________________________________________________________________ Looking for the right job? http://creative.mediaturf.net/creatives/timesjobs/hotmail_TOL.htm Log on to timesjobs.com and apply TODAY! ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hqbck3u/M=362335.6886444.7839734.2575449/D=groups/S=1705020082:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1124721139/A=2894362/R=0/SIG=138c78jl6/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/arts_culture/?source=YAHOO&cmpgn=GRP&RTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/";>What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater?Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -- You are encouraged to post poetry, respond critically to the poems circulated and participate in discussions. To post, email your message to [email protected] OR post online at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/post/ Tell friends to subscribe to ZESTPoets by sending a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], OR, if they have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/join/ ---theZESTcommunity-------------- [1] ZESTCurrent: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCurrent/ [2] ZESTEconomics: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTEconomics/ [3] ZESTGlobal: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTGlobal/ [4] ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/ [5] ZESTPoets: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/ [6] ZESTCaste: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ [7] ZESTAlternative: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTAlternative/ [8] TalkZEST: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkZEST/ --- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
