The sleeping women without a voice.
Who swallow their words.
End every statement with a question mark.
For the women who hide their nakedness.
Fear the sweet caress of life.
Who feel lost from love.
Doubt darkens your slumber.
Waken the timid girl.
Speak with exclamation points.
Smell the sweet scent of sex.
She who wakens the silence.
The world moves in her.
JK
JK
This one <3
ReplyDeleteThank you!
ReplyDeleteNice, really.. as is. My comment on that one line was before I saw it on the page. Yes to the punctuation. Yes to the +/- sonnet length..... And yes to Green Tara.
ReplyDeleteThanks! Yes, to the punctuation used in the poem, or to the punctuation references?
ReplyDeletePoetry, as T.S.Eliot said in a famous pronouncement, is a form of punctuation.
ReplyDeleteNow it is, as Lacan has shown, an interesting , literary, analogy for the practice of the Analyst to say she punctuates the sessions— with verbal interventions, or their omissions, and by the end of the session. ‘The punctuation’, Lacan writes, ‘once inserted, fixes the meaning’; ‘changing the punctuation renews or upsets’ the meanings that the patient asserts in his speech. […”repunctuating—upsets old meanings with a view to creating new ones…” and “…shows the subject that he is saying more than he thinks he is.] Phillips
(extended quote over) I like the idea of exploring the power of punctuation.