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| Marriage is memory, marriage is time. ~ Joan Didion |
�The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude . . . . � ? Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
�In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.�
? Simone de Beauvoir
? Simone de Beauvoir
Midweek Motif ~ Marriage
Love and marriage
Love and marriage
Go together like a horse and carriage . . . .
And then what happens??
Your Challenge: Marry your truths about marriage to a story in a new poem. Enjoy!
Here's some more inspiration:
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, �The Ache of Marriage� from Poems 1960-1967.
Copyright � 1966 by Denise Levertov. New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Anna Bell and Lane, eighty,
make small leaf piles in the heat,
each pile a great joint effort,
like fifty years of marriage,
sharing chores a rusty dance.
In my own yard, the stacks
are big as children, who scatter them,
dodge and limbo the poke
of my rake. We�re lucky,
young and straight-boned.
And I feel sorry for the couple,
bent like parentheses
around their brittle little lawn.
I like feeling sorry for them,
the tenderness of it, but only
for a moment: John glides in
like a paper airplane, takes
the children for the weekend,
and I remember,
they�re the lucky ones�
shriveled Anna Bell, loving
her crooked Lane.
Used with the poet's permission.
Reprinted from The Poetry Foundatiom.
From Karaoke Funeral, Snake Nation Press, 2003.
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