Originally posted by coquetteOne Line Never Ending Poem's Sunday Afternoon Visiting Poet today is Denise Levertov
an aching bottomless pit
(coquette's word "aching" brought this poem to mind)
The Ache of Marriage
The ache of marriage:
thigh and tongue, beloved,
are heavy with it,
it throbs in the teeth
We look for communion
and are turned away, beloved,
each and each
It is leviathan and we
in its belly
looking for joy, some joy
not to be known outside it
two by two in the ark of
the ache of it.
~Denise Levertov (1932-1963)
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyWas Denise a friend of R.G.?
One Line Never Ending Poem's Sunday Afternoon Visiting Poet today is Denise Levertov
(coquette's word "aching" brought this poem to mind)
[b]The Ache of Marriage
The ache of marriage:
thigh and tongue, beloved,
are heavy with it,
it throbs in the teeth
We look for communion
and are turned away, beloved,
each and each
...[text shortened]... nown outside it
two by two in the ark of
the ache of it.
~Denise Levertov (1932-1963)[/b]