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Sinew

movingfingermovingfinger Posts: 117
edited October 2005 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
Beneath me I feel her
Pulling and writhing
I cannot see her though
For I am blind

A delicate tonus
Chimes from
Thew'y loins
Eyes covered
By a dyed black
Surgical mask

Sensual dissection
Closes upon
Felt rug

Blindness folds
Within
Pressing void
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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it

-- Omar Khayyam
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  • movingfingermovingfinger Posts: 117
    i'm interested to hear some people's interpretations, as it can be read many ways
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    The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
    Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
    Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
    Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it

    -- Omar Khayyam
  • ISNISN Posts: 1,700
    I want to respond, as I think it's a good poem......I find it disturbing, but I have no ready interpretation of it, which I think is a good thing :)
    ....they're asking me to prove why I should be allowed to stay with my baby in Australia, because I'm mentally ill......and they think I should leave......
  • violet rayviolet ray Posts: 502
    ISN wrote:
    I want to respond, as I think it's a good poem......I find it disturbing, but I have no ready interpretation of it, which I think is a good thing :)

    same here.

    i'm thinking rape, serial killer...or some really serious S & M.

    but i'm sure i am way off, as always.
    You ask me to enter
    But then You make me crawl
    And I can't be holding on
    To what You got
    When all You've got is hurt
    ----
    Underneath this smile lies everything
    All my hopes and anger, pride and shame
  • twin2twin2 Posts: 894
    I too think it's a rape, killing, etc. It's very creepy.
  • movingfingermovingfinger Posts: 117
    i'm not sure exactly yet were this poem stems from, i have been reading a lot of philip roth, though, which has peeked my interest in the darker sides of sensuality. Rape, itself, may be a connotation of this poem, although that was not what was intended. More so i read it as an examination of lovemaking through darker terms.
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    The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
    Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
    Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
    Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it

    -- Omar Khayyam
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