Passions - Shakespeare's Monkeys

Passions

love? oh, I have loved.

I have given life and desire to love,
passed it gladly on a platter of hope
and had it returned, dead and cold.

I have flown free with the birds
on ghostly wings, singing my love
with operatic joy for all mankind.

I have been a prisoner in the
dungeon of my love
crushed and jellied by the
weight of my guilty sorrows.

I have loved lust and hungered
for the heat of intimate sensation
where romance becomes sex.

but I have shared love and keep it now,
close and secure in the palace
of my heart, in mirrored halls
where all is light and ecstasy.

U668857 -

A potted history of the heart's progress...some fine phrases here ..."platter of hope" is very good...has overtones of being offered up...almost John the baptist head on a platter like associations...

"operatic joy for all mankind" is certainly redolent of love's effusion in that first heady flush...then "dungeon of love" is the dark flip-side when it all starts unravelling....

That final image of a palace of light is a fine summation at journey's end...

Good piece. Rgds.,Alan.

Kevin Dail -

Thank you Alan. I appreciate the comments. It leads me to think I am on the right track:)

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"Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am, by what devious means do you contrive to remain idle? Teach me, O master." Play - William Carlos Williams

"Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am, by what devious means do you contrive to remain idle? Teach me, O master." Play - William Carlos Williams

Fractured Muse -

very descriptive and colorful. it paints a picture in my mind, one i have also painted, time and again, of the many facets of love...the ones that burn bright and beautiful, and the dark ones as well.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.