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ummm - lost in the need

I like this Alsiony. There's a nice energy here - intense, I think that it goes well with fire.

You know a harem might not be so bad. You could take turns making suppers (hubby to of course), walking the kids to school, doing laundry and and and you might actually get an honest answer about how your pants look.

ahhh I think you're right Karen, especially about the line!

Want and need are so easily confused, sometimes it's hard to tell which is which for wants certainly do feel like needs (sometimes).

You choose to want something...
I don't know, personally I don't think it seems to be a choice (at least initially) but I think we can choose how to react to that want and I think that we are capable of reflecting on that want to see if it might be indicating a some type of 'need' elsewhere.

Thanks for responding Ladies

Definitely right about being lost in want! But this is that kind of unique hypnotic want - so powerful that it feels like need.
Women are powerful creatures
So intense is the attraction, so instinctive feeling, like it is woven through her entire skin, touching completely the inside and outside of her whole self, entangled in the moment, however long that 'moment' may last. Of course it does not last forever. It is a lifetimes worth caught in a small chapter.

I used 'in heat' as a play on words with fire, alluding to female animals being in heat - and the intense attraction that this causes males to feel - so the attraction is there-fore mutual. She is 'stirred', as is he, the 'fire' ( and the whole situation!) too.

'Caution laying winded...' meaning that she knows perhaps she should think twice - this lady does know who she is... but has clearly decided to get rid of that train of thought - she has basically deliberately dealt cautiousness a disabling blow and rendered it helpless on the floor! Determined lady!.. Determined enough to join a 'harem', which basically implies that she knows the love affair will not last forever- there have been others before, and there will be others after her - But for now- this is their time together.
'She may choose...' is a bit of a giggle...'may choose' -?? - Yeah right... As if!! Haha.

I just do this for fun and as an outlet - I'm no pro by any stretch, but I like using words as if they are mini Narnian wardrobes - you step inside the word and see all of its different meanings and potential contexts, just as it is - as one word, and the sentence that you then place it in suddenly has ten different meanings instead of just one or two.

Thanks Cate and Karren I wasn't sure if anyone would want to comment on a poem that might seem like a bit of Heathen work

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Thakyou Karren you are very kind. All I can say is that I write absolutely from the heart... whatever it is that I decide to waffle on about, and I am afraid that it can be anything

karrenb wrote: "I Feel Therefore I Am"

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YAY!!!
I have been studying philosophy a bit lately - not just out of choice - mind you I am enjoying it -kinda... mostly... sorta...
(I am skiving and being very very bad logging into the forum, you will find it addictive sometimes.
At the moment it's a case of 'Shhhh! You ain't seen me right? ' -because I am supposed to be doing something else, so I had better get off again!)
- I like your words a bit better though!

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Karren... with you in being guilty on all counts haha - I am starting to feel like I met you in a previous life

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Is there room for one more?
It's an excellent poem, Alsiony;
...and I "want" to seep into this "hareem"!
"Life is trouble, only death is not. To be alive is to unbuckle your belt and LOOK for trouble! (Zorba the Greek))

Mat.

I used 'in heat' as a play on words with fire, alluding to female animals being in heat

I missed that before - excellent word play.

Caution I was close with - I thought caution was winded from exhaustion.

Harem – ahhh I thought he was married or partnered and she was willing to sacrifice previous moral inhibitions for a piece of him.

Thanks Cate
- It is deliberately ambiguous as to whether either person in the poem is attached to someone else or not. I think the scenario could be that either or both or neither already has a partner. Whoever is reading it can decide that for themselves I guess.

Thanks also Mat for commenting - and I love that quote! - I'm going to copy it down and keep it.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure. (Socrates)

(It is so lucky for me that my tutor can't tell that every time I write it down I am pronouncing that giant name just like Bill and Ted did - - (hehehe) )

(Right - I am going to be a good girl and close down my browser again... for a while... and see how long I last this time!)

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It is deliberately ambiguous

oh I know, you seemed interested in interpretation, I was just sharing the image that came to me when I read it

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Cate I am sorry - I am interested in interpretation! I re-read what I wrote and realised I may sound like I am trying to be a clever-dick and I never mean to come across like that (unless I am just mucking about!)

It's really lovely that people take the time to even read through what I write and I appreciate both that (and comments etc I recieve) hugely, because I am constantly learning... even about things that I already know from my own experiences - there is always a different way to view something.

Unfortunately I also run the risk of sounding like a plank at times - but it's the mistaken 'wanna-be-know-it-all' that bothers me the most, rather than looking like an idiot, because I genuinely don't feel like that .
Funny thing is you write something and fold it away in a box and then 15 years later, or whatever, you bump into it again, and sometimes it has gathered new meanings - even though you can clearly remember eveything that was originally behind it at the time of writing. (I read one of your poem threads about how you had found the poem again and that made me smile I love how different interpretations occur )

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