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her body as a resting place
May 10, 2013
she is (or will be)
the sleep I need; her body
is a resting place.
© Lauren M., Marblehead, MA
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After meditating on this poem for like months and weeks, I finally understood it. I'm so stupid. This is about the earth. And how she will be or has always been the final place or bed where our bodies will rest forever after we die. Am I correct? I kept meditating about it. And repeating every word. Until I came up with this interpretation. Sorry, I took forever. You really stumped me with it. I dunno why. Maybe my brain was all slow that day.
Okay, so I had wriiten out a comment explaining but I guess it never posted >_> Basically, any poems I write that sound like love poems for a woman personify the earth. She is such a sexy lady, Earth. So, her body is a resting place... we die, we get buried, right? Inside her. Ahahah. So basically it's a lesbian love poem about death :)
I have NO IDEA. I can't find it ANYWHERE online. But it was in my copy of "An Anthology of American Poets", which is my Bible, but it's lost. I'll look it up when I can! So, about the poem itself- Any poem of mine to this date about females that is not for/about Caf or my family (in other words, any poem that seems like a love poem for a girl) basically personifies the Earth as a lady. A very sexy lady. Um... I don't know why. But "Poem For Adana" is like that too, along with "spring". And... Yeah. Earth as a resting place; we are buried. Pretty much a sexy love poem that s also about death?
Can I say that this one beffudles me? In a good way too. I'm having a hard time trying to decipher it. The resting place is the part that is making my head turn this way and that. But I will decipher it as soon as I can. Regardless, I think it's a great poem. As always. 5 stars.
