A Single Kiss Poem by Robert Rorabeck

A Single Kiss

Rating: 3.8


Well, it is raining, and the raindrops make
Furtive areolas in the puddles of muddy bellies,
And their mists are like nebulous shrouds,
And unfertilized thoughts of maidens dreaming of
Weddings and fine bachelors in their highest high towers-
And I am warm, as down in the valley the safe cabins
Huddle against their pines like satisfied lovers,
And I read my book once more the way a captain checks
Over his ship preparing for embarkation,
For I will be published mutely and celebrate with my dogs
In the consolatory monsoons of this lush season;
For it is what I can hope for, and my smiling mother’s eyes,
And the way the doors lay sometimes half open letting
In the glows; but I cannot love her anymore, when my
Words grow tangled about my mind like weeds and skeins
Of my dead aunt’s yarn the kittens have playfully disemboweled,
For on the swings so far away she is moving in her arcs
As the policemen patrol her, and the apex where her legs grow
Up together and into the seat of a tall ladder placed below
Her window where the work is finished and she leans outwards,
Her eyes so maple and October, and she sighs never thinking
How the rain touches me, as if the kisses from cold little children,
Never once desiring her match-head, and the humming bloom
Of a single kiss....

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Ujwal Bastakoti 15 July 2008

well expressed. I really like it

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Caroline Weeks 17 September 2008

This is incredibly well thought-out and gorgeous. 'Her eyes so maple and October'-that is an incredible line! A perfect 10.

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A B Faniki 02 October 2019

Nicely done. I love the flow of words. Thanks 4 sharing this heartfelt poem. great write

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Rebecca Lyle 19 April 2017

really wonderfully written work

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Brandi Guthrie 28 December 2011

I enjoy the tainted and akward words you used to describe such a simple and pure event.

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Nivedita Bagchi SPC UK 27 October 2009

Descriptive poem A Single Kiss well written. Ten Ms. Nivedita UK Please read my Poems: Why Hack My She [In Elite 500] Enigmatic Navel or others. niv

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Reshma Ramesh 13 October 2008

she leans outward.....beautiful...

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