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Love, passion...they come in all shapes and forms as do those of us who have them, often kept in some quiet (even secret) corner of the heart, sometimes jealously guarded, sometimes waiting (even longing) to be shared with the right person.
Who
doesn't love blowing bubbles? Whoever, wherever we are in the world, whatever
our socio-cultural-religious or, yes, sexual persuasion, it is an opportunity to indulge
ourselves in just being human, neither as others or even ourselves might have us otherwise; nor is it ever too late to give it a go ...
"Two
bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying:
"It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds."
- Carl Sandburg, Bubbles, in “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
"Miracles happen every day. They bubble up
from their hidden source, surround us with opportunities and disappear." -
Deepak Chopra
This poem is a kenning.
B-U-B-B-L-E-S (ON CUE)
I
creep up on cold feet
(love to blow bubbles in a cynic’s face)
lead
them a lively dance
away
from querulous urban sprawl,
where
open spaces beckon,
prose
fields beside satire’s streams
where
songbirds give the lie
to
dashed hopes, impossible dreams,
cruel
whispers in the ear
Oh,
how I love to play games
(preferring
pretty bubbles to drab tears)
especially
hide-and-seek
among
trees looking on with a grin
where
open spaces beckon;
though
telegraph poles might trespass,
along
with mobile phone masts
and
utility pipelines crowding our space,
we’ll not let them get to us
I
play tricks on cold feet
(bubbles
like eyes winking mischievously)
lead
them a lively dance
away
from heads-you-win-tails-I-lose
looking
glass wars
in
dusty rooms, opening up windows
to
let back in the heady smells
of
honeysuckle and freshly mown grass,
Earth
Mother in on the game
Call
me Passion, whose cue the lyre of Eros
arousing its life forces for better, for worse
Copyright R. N. Taber 2009; rev. 2020
[Note: This poem also appears on my gay-interest poetry blog today.]
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