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The Kiss

Lips' language to lips' ears.
Two drinking each other's heart, it seems.
Two roving loves who have left home,
pilgrims to the confluence of lips.
Two waves rise by the law of love
to break and die on two sets of lips.
Two wild desires craving each other
meet at last at the body's limits.
Love's writing a song in dainty letters,
layers of kiss-calligraphy on lips.
Plucking flowers from two sets of lips
perhaps to thread them into a chain later.
This sweet union of lips
is the red marriage-bed of a pair of smiles.

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  • Reema AlShammeri
    May 30, 2005
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    this poem has deeper meaning than "just too much visuallity" or "just love is beauty or sweetness" it has the meaning of confluence of souls, of trust of the bodies, of the hope and the dream for the future which put the meaning of this lips meeting, the thirstiness with which each deep lover drink from his lover`s lips as if drinks from his heart. Its not only the beauty of love or the touch of the lips its the completing of the bodies and the souls in one and the meaning of this poem is the divine and supreme delight of the completing ur identity with ur second half ur lover ur love which makes u complete


  • Ahkam Moderators member
    October 26, 2004
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    So many beautiful words and thoughts...the sweetness...the lips...love is beauty ...beauty is Love...lips to taste the sweetness of heart...the honey sweet taste of Love...Tagore a is wonderful thinker

  • Nam
    June 21, 2004
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    I like a couple of the lines in this piece, such as:

    'Love's writing a song in dainty letters,'

    and as well as:

    'is the red marriage-bed of a pair of smiles.'

    But, the piece overall I didn't care for. It is well-written of course, but, it just seemed to rush itself, and put too much in visuality in each sentence.

    But, I do like those lines I mentioned, overall tho, didn't care too much for this piece.