Thursday, October 21, 2010

Refusal


Beloved,
In what other lands or lives
Have I known your lips
Your hands
Your laughter brave
Irreverent.
Those sweet excesses 
That I do adore.
What surety is there
That we will meet again, 
On other worlds some
Future time undated.
I defy my body's haste.
Without the promise
Of one more sweet encounter
I will not deign to die.


Maya Angelou

4 comments:

Tim said...

Wonderful poem + beautiful picture = a very thoughtful post. Thanks!

Mother Sharon Damnable said...

Thanks TQ :>)


Maya Angelou has long been a favourite poem of mine, and my brother took the picture of the beautiful rose at the Chealsea flower show.

Oberon said...

...his arms wide open.

Mother Sharon Damnable said...

......thank you...