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The Shower

we like to shower afterwards
(I like the water hotter than she)
and her face is always soft and peaceful
and she'll wash me first
spread the soap over my balls
lift the balls
squeeze them,
then wash the cock:
"hey, this thing is still hard!"
then get all the hair down there,-
the belly, the back, the neck, the legs,
I grin grin grin,
and then I wash her. . .
first the cunt, I
stand behind her, my cock in the cheeks of her ass
I gently soap up the cunt hairs,
wash there with a soothing motion,
I linger perhaps longer than necessary,
then I get the backs of the legs, the ass,
the back, the neck, I turn her, kiss her,
soap up the breasts, get them and the belly, the neck,
the fronts of the legs, the ankles, the feet,
and then the cunt, once more, for luck. . .
another kiss, and she gets out first,
toweling, sometimes singing while I stay in
turn the water on hotter
feeling the good times of love's miracle
I then get out. . .
it is usually mid-afternoon and quiet,
and getting dressed we talk about what else
there might be to do,
but being together solves most of it
for as long as those things stay solved
in the history of women and
man, it's different for each-
for me, it's splendid enough to remember
past the memories of pain and defeat and unhappiness:
when you take it away
do it slowly and easily
make it as if I were dying in my sleep instead of in
my life, amen.

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  • stella187
    April 2
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    I think it is absolutely disgusting. I like some of his work but not this.


  • February 18
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    the most amazing sonnet

    From guest Michael Georgiades (contact)
    this is the most amazing sonnet i have ever read..!!


  • January 12
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    Neat

    From guest Norm C. (contact)
    Not what I was looking for, but it was really cool


  • December 24, 2008
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    mitsake ?

    From guest Eve (contact)
    4th line : shouldn't it read "she'll WASH me first" ?

    MOD MESSAGE
    It seems you are correct. Thanks for spotting this for us.
    Here is a link to a reading of the poem.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfYszB4ikwQ

  • Sue Cardwell
    July 28, 2008

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    This has just the right amount of sensuality to not make it truly erotic. To shower together after sex is one of the most wonderful things you can do and he has expressed it beautifully.
    A joy to read.

  • just mercedes
    April 3, 2008
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    Wonderful

    A celebration of the moments after sexual tension is resolved, and a clear peace is allowed to take it's place. This is beautiful, graphic and unashamed and a testament to the need of man and woman for each other, to make sense of the whole mess. I didn't expect such tenderness from him.

  • Miss2008Best
    February 12, 2008
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    I loved the intro, but the message is beautiful as well.

  • Caliente
    March 10, 2006
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    At first, I felt like this poem was graphic where it didn't need to be, but I think that is just the point. Sometimes we focus so much on life's little details that we miss the point. Don't ask me what the point is. After all, I'm here right now focusing on the details. LOL

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