aromatic steam rises from a matcha bowl waiting for your lips to press against porcelain sweet taste of jasmine flowers our tantric dancing trips the light of galaxies we are earth and moon cheek to cheek and face to face inhaling each other’s breath when we last parted soft drumming of rain on leaves was […]
Tag: Courtesan
Courtesan
I reworked ‘Floating’, a poem I posted on 4th November 2015, into two haiku as a response to Carpe Diem Special #196 Hamish Gunn’s 2nd “on the street corner” gift-wrapped courtesan gorgeous ikebana bloom inscrutable face world of the teahouse floating on tides of pleasure artifice and art © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image […]
Floating
From behind the romantic gauze Created by patriarchy The courtesan’s eyes tell all Wrapped like a gift A beautiful ikebana bloom Armed with only a fan To hide her pain The inscrutable face As formal as the teahouse A world floating On the tide of pleasure Between desire and suffering Manipulation and art Image found […]
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