Sunday, May 4, 2008

Poem: Oasis

Oasis

Lips are a waste land
Longing for tender droplets
Of one gentle kiss

Copyright SGW 2008

For the prompt at One Single Impression: Desert
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23 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 4, 2008 at 9:48 AM

    Oh, I just love this. Thirty lips looking for love!

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  2. paisleyMay 4, 2008 at 10:40 AM

    oh that is beautiful...

    but i cant help but think of the many frogs i have had to kiss in the course of my search.......

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  3. STPMay 4, 2008 at 10:48 AM

    Ah, but aren't the frogs merely the desert mirage that keeps us thirsty?

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  4. maryt/theteachMay 4, 2008 at 11:18 AM

    Scott, isn't it just amazing what a writing prompt will generate? Beautiful! :)

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  5. AnonymousMay 4, 2008 at 1:02 PM

    ..Q:..the road less traveled; now where the hell am I?!
    Ans:[first things first]On the right track friend!..and your poem is good!

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  6. RavenMay 4, 2008 at 1:56 PM

    What a beautiful way to convey physical and emotional longing. Wonderful poem.

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  7. AnonymousMay 4, 2008 at 4:40 PM

    This is so true. Wouldn't it be a nice thing to have? A kiss of love. Makes me so wistful.

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  8. SandyCarlsonMay 4, 2008 at 4:55 PM

    Beautiful. And what of the oases that are optical illusions? So many....
    Writing in Faith: Poems

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  9. AnonymousMay 4, 2008 at 5:28 PM

    Love the phrase "lips are a waste land". Very creative.

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  10. AnonymousMay 5, 2008 at 8:27 AM

    Leave it to you to take a simple few words and turn it into such an impact of emotion! Bravo my friend!

    Jack

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  11. AnonymousMay 5, 2008 at 12:49 PM

    You made it sensually alive!

    pinpricks

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  12. TeriMay 5, 2008 at 3:50 PM

    Interesting and lovely words!

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  13. AnonymousMay 5, 2008 at 7:59 PM

    ...sigh... i remember... i gotta get out more...

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  14. qualcosa di belloMay 6, 2008 at 12:22 PM

    so utterly romantic!!!

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  15. Annie JeffriesMay 7, 2008 at 1:34 PM

    Love truly nurishes, be it a tender kiss for a baby or the passionate kiss of a lover.

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  16. Noah the GreatMay 7, 2008 at 8:50 PM

    Lovely.

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  17. UnknownMay 8, 2008 at 4:18 AM

    Your snippets are too beautiful. Enlarge them the same way you have concocted it and there you will find a full fledged poem.
    congrats.. Keep it up.Who is bothered about political harangue. Do not mar your imagination with such mean thinking.. cheers.. kunjubi

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  18. STPMay 8, 2008 at 6:12 AM

    Kunjabi: Thank you, I think. Oasis appears to me as just the right size, though. It seems to have evoked enough to allow people's thoughts to run where they'd wish to. That works for me.

    Bothered with political harangue? Marring my imagination with mean thinking? I think not. I am of the belief that a poet/writer has a responsibility to record and speak out on what is occurring in society. To not do so is a dereliction of duty as a writer. The last eight years have been ones of wrongheadedness, misguided leadership, pain, suffering, death, and corruption. I must speak to that or I have failed in my pledge to being a writer.

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  19. spacedlawMay 8, 2008 at 7:28 AM

    I love your interpretation of the oasis.

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  20. AnonymousMay 8, 2008 at 9:36 AM

    Oh the longing here! I absolutely love this.

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  21. STPMay 8, 2008 at 1:03 PM

    I don't even know how to express my appreciation for the emotional response this haiku has received. Thanx to all!!

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  22. Michelle HixMay 12, 2008 at 5:25 AM

    Beautiful and sensual.

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  23. AnonymousMay 27, 2008 at 6:27 PM

    Oh, this poem resonates!

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