Needing and Wanting...and Settling

I was inspired to write this poem more recently...after almost six years since writing my last poem. I'm sure it's pretty self-explanatory....ENJOY!

What they want

is a dent in their mattress

for a steady keel while they are sleeping

they want to struggle

to figure out what's in the corner

or on the surface of the other

to be able to sniff past

the listerine and to the

marijuana laced breath of the other

they will settle

for foreign hands on their bodies

for other impressions to interpret

their wet or dry dreams

they want to pose with another

whose eye color is a better match

for a their own up-do hair styles...

they will need a human heart

to explain to them their own hearts.

 

What do I want?

I want to live where I only need

turtle necks...and red wine

and straight lines

I will need to walk with bare hills

and not fret too much

about the snow or water beneath them

and If love so happens

to find me in route

I want to look at him

and feel affection completely

I will not be satisfied to delude

any more or less than this

for the well-planted waves

of my great imagination

...because I no longer bleed

or need to weave stairs of anecdotes

for backyard grills or Christmas dinners

I'll pass on short, tiara-crowned fantasies

and illuminated, but still hidden promises

I will only settle to look back at love

and feel from it what I feel.

 

-Anarda Nashai

author of School Girl

Check out my website at:

www.anardanashai.webs.com !

Reviews

[emmajoy]

This greets the senses and reality at the same time. There's a distinct flow and rhythm to your writing -although prose poetry, and, I fully appreciate that. You m anage to balance past and present, wish and possession at the same time.. it's a very well constructed piece in both words and the way you've used them

There are so many lines or phrases that I find wonderful but choose the following because.. well, I don't know why: -

' I will need to walk with bare hills / and not fret too much / about the snow or water beneath them / and
If love so happens / to find me in route / I want to look at him / and feel affection completely '

that says 'contentment' and ' gentle, unselfish optimisim'

Great write, thank you for sharing.

[Mistral Bilgera]

i agree with everyone! this is a poem that packs a lot of wisdom, without trying too hard in metaphors.
the subtle imagery works for the poem, not against it. good work. :)

[dilettante1890]

beautiful and gritty at the same time. You've struck a nice balance between the poetic impulse and reality. Good work!

[☮]

What they want vs. what you want, stated confidently, with elegance. I loved it. Nice write!

[Tainted Angel]

Wow, that was really awsome. I like hills. Up a down, up and down! ha ha. Still, very deep, and wonderful. I will definatly visit your site.

[Nik Dendera]

Nice piece, very peaceful and serene in nature. More of a pondering type poem, one that makes you think.

I enjoyed this, its simplicity in structure and subject. Very good piece, well done!

[Fabian G. Franklin]

Simply wonderful poetry/ I love the part about the turtlenecks. It reminds of that song by Eytan Mirsky, " I just want to be your Steve Mcqeen." I sent him an add request on MySpace and he wrote me back and added me, really a nice guy. And I love that song and somebody added the coolest video to it on YouTube and Eytan has it posted on his page! I thought, how very cool. lol Your piece was very well written and self explanatory as advertised, very good free verse to boot. I am trying to give rhyme back a little of its long lost respect myself. I hate a bad rhyme but I love it when it flows. I was gifted with a musician's ear for lyrics and we court jesters must tend to our work. lol

[Lyrical Love]

I really liked that. The twist was interesting-leading one to wonder...