We need passion for life
We need passion like ancestral sweat on jungle spring African violets
We need passion like the quieting of an infant’s cries for his mother’s nipples
like the drying desire to drink
let us do what we do best
Create.
detach from the world and all it has to offer
like the fall of sky tall pine trees
like a Muslim nauseous at the smell of swine
let us get away from here!
Like we did the first time
let us hungrily read Genesis to Revelation
and discover one another
let me be imperfect
not what the music and magazine say
but who I am this very second
the extent of me and you in divine disguise
the scent of me in heat for some passion
Like a 4th of July dog scratching against the screen door
We need passion for life.
We need passion like surrendering in a rain shower,
like the uncontrollable moans of a multiple orgasm
let me get this out!
let me get this out!
like the vulgar urges of bulimia
let me get this out!
I yearn this
I yearn this like Thursday evening paychecks
want me
want me like the smell of your mother’s kitchen on Sunday
protect me
protect me like a father holding his child’s hand
let us discover God together
We need passion
Like the heaving chest of a woman giving birth
Like the finger sore of BB strumming the blues
Like a poem with a thousand metaphors
Let us make love over and over and again
We need passion like, like, like…right now.
Very powerful, LOVE IT, LOVE IT!
YES, YES, 100 PERCENT YES, Nikki, we need passion, we need it desperately, we need it now. I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. Bless you and thank you for this PASSION POEM. I LOVE IT. BLESS YOU.
🙂 we take life for granted most days, we need passion!
Passion – the spice of life, the spark that makes living sparkle…our safety valve from monotony, our redemption from boredom! Great poem!
Thanks Noel!
Passion – without it, life would be a clumsy lukewarm painting in flat monochrome.
🙂 good analogy
I love the way you bring words to life
🙂 I’m so glad you think so. I want to inspire the way other artists inspire me!
😊😀😀😀well you are already inspiring me and I am sure many others as well
My passion is now officially sparked and ready to lay profoundness on the parchment… Thank you for your continued inspiration…
Let’s keep those pens flowing! We have so much to write about and people to inspire 🙂
Ooooh weeee! This is nothing short of powerful!
That passion for life all do that to ya! Thank you for the feedback.
This echoes with concussive force!
Thank you!
Yes!
… and i hear it
and i feel it
sis
passion for days
this poem can be about so much/ another reason yet/ i love poetry/ could be ’bout love and so much more/ whatever it is/ we need more of it
the magic of poetry 😊 thank you
This is beautiful. I love it.
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it.