When A Man Hasn't Been Kissed

When I haven't been kissed in a long time,
I walk behind well-dressed women

on cold, December mornings and shovel
the steamy exhalations pluming from their lips

down my throat with both hands, hoping
a single molecule will cling to my lungs.

When I haven't been kissed in a long time,
I sneak into the ladies room of a fancy restaurant,

dig into the trashcan for a napkin
where a woman checked her lipstick,

then go home, light candles, put on Barry White,
and press the napkin all over my body.

When I haven't been kissed in a long time,
I start thinking leeches are the most romantic

creatures, cause all they want to do is kiss.
If only someone invented a kinder, gentler leech,

I'd paint it bright pink and pretend
Winona Ryder's lips crawled off her face,

up my thigh, and were sucking on my swollen
bicep. When I haven't been kissed

in a long time, I create civil disturbances,
then insult the cops who show up,

till one of them grabs me by the collar
and hurls me up against the squad car,

so I can remember, at least for a moment,
what it's like to be touched.

-- Jeffrey McDaniel

whoa. i'm not inspired.. i'm AWE-STRUCK!

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what we choose is never what we really need


*VampireWriters|=PoetryPlease|*Writers-Workshop|=ScribeSanctuary

You'll be fine Mara! Sometimes things get quiet inside before your mind takes hold of another idea. Use this time to really examine your writing from an objective standpoint. The muse will come on its own.

I sure hope so, my friend. Thank you

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what we choose is never what we really need


*VampireWriters|=PoetryPlease|*Writers-Workshop|=ScribeSanctuary

You want to write something? Let's play a game then, shall we? I'll write to you a line, you write a poem out of it. Doesn't matter how long. Then you give me a line and I write a poem out of it. We'll do it twice, I mean 2 poems, and then we'll comment on each other's poems and if we want post it online How does it sound to you?

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Some days I write those words, others they write me.

*batizes u*

u are now.. INSPIRED @.@ .. by the will of God.


>D

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Ash ... O_o ... mhmmm...impossible is nothing...because nothing is impossible...its the possibilities that make all the possibles impossible...which is impossible itself... or... is it? ... O_o

FOR THE EMPRESSSSSSSSSS!!!


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what we choose is never what we really need


*VampireWriters|=PoetryPlease|*Writers-Workshop|=ScribeSanctuary

sounds cool. let's give it a shot.

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what we choose is never what we really need


*VampireWriters|=PoetryPlease|*Writers-Workshop|=ScribeSanctuary

xDDDDDDDDDDDDDD BOW MINIONZ~~~ @.@!

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Ash ... O_o ... mhmmm...impossible is nothing...because nothing is impossible...its the possibilities that make all the possibles impossible...which is impossible itself... or... is it? ... O_o