Quote of the moment

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

-Wendell Berry: The Peace or the Wild Things

Dec 28, 2008

Kiss

Mother’s breath brushes babe’s forehead
Lips touch gently the sleeping child
Even through slumber carry the love
Calm the forming mind from all things wild

Gentle kiss to young ones scrape
Make all trace of pain dissolve away
The same in the dark of night
Keeps the phantom spawn away

Slobber sharing, grime and dirt
And whatever else is whipped on shirt
Naught else can make the golden years of more worth
Than the attention of a child’s kiss and mirth

Kisses of joy and kisses of love
These are gifts without compare
A brush of lips warmth of breath
An instant of time that life we share

This is a truth of life that is good
A joy that no can ever erode
Through the instant may pass, the truth lives on
Of a time when life seems as it should

Lips touch gently to the back of the hand
That subtle brush of lips to skin
Warm radiates as rings on water expand
Invokes a movement of spirit deep within

A touch f moist air to the nape of the neck
Delivers spikes of pleasure down the spine
While a light whisper and lips to lobes of the ear
Set beads of sweat as dew on the morning vine

Moist and silky soft lips join together then part
Then fluidly slip over cheek and brow
A smooth caress over supple skin
Will melts as it flowers to bliss of love to endow

Again lips meet, with feathery touch
Tender taste of being as tongue caresses mouth’s crease
Margin and fold, easily to the corners
Until they part with a light sigh of release

One more time lips meet and hold
Exchanging between every breath
As if the catch the others soul
A caring of love that could ward off death

Deep union of heart and mind
Heedless joining of complete concentration
The outside world pauses for a time
The being is shaken to its foundation



This is a truth of life that is good
Love without measure between two true
Exchange of life, of essence, of soul
This is a moment that life seems as it should

A kiss is a moment of care divine
A moment of passions exchange with no compare
This is a time of life that is as it should be
This is a truth of life that is good.

G- December 2008

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