The Sexual Arts

Sleeping around with the museums and libraries
Ageless vitality; ever humbled by gravity

Books still … wake up to make love before breakfast
Paintings can kiss you long after you leave them

Letters, and oils, and pastels, and pencils can …
Eat your heart out and rip your soul a new one

But love, lust, and sex know the clock of bones’ bleeding…
Well pleasures to living, and dance the one mind

Jealous & envy-free; wild-joy living
And the lost and found divine cocoon of alone

Sure, it’s no womb, but its warm, wet, and waiting
For you to go come home here
End up beginnings
And age (onto time) is a memory laughing
With You! … that bright glint …
your eye’s vital-
soul blazing

You’re sexy
and that heaving … will not fade, lest you fear death

Your flesh; your loves’ bones;
your expensive life’s climax

Priceless, poor, rich; so hot; fire!
Look out!

© Copyright 2008 C.C. Arshagra
From “The Integrity of Erotic Poetry” Series (Unpublished work)


C.C. Arshagra

The Sexual Arts by

Inspired by Kristy Lee’s "sleeping around’. Go ahead …read into it … !

—Get this! Inspired by Krity’s journal entry / with a teaser title no less.
But I here must add that the comments helped. Especially LisaG’s “You Jealous Rocky!”

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Comments

  • MissKristy
    MissKristyover 4 years ago

    Ohh bless you…that last stanza is just bliss. Pure bliss.

  • I love to move just one. You are one. Thank you MissKristy!

    – C.C. Arshagra

  • kafka
    kafkaover 4 years ago

    Pure magic…..that line…‘Paintings can kiss you long after you leave them’ is going to live with me for ever – you are an incredibly gifted soul CC…….k

  • For ever! See you. You see, I knew we would meet in person someday!

    – C.C. Arshagra

  • C.C. Arshagra
    C.C. Arshagraover 4 years ago

    Thanks you dear Kafka! Especially for voicing the line that moved you most, AND the voice of how moved you were behind that. I am most grateful for that extended a comment!

  • pijinlane
    pijinlaneover 4 years ago

    Look out indeed!!!!!

  • Jen! I miss you. (A little heart-sign here)

    – C.C. Arshagra

  • Arlene Zapata
    Arlene Zapataover 4 years ago

    The 1st-4 lines really grabbed me + are truly inspiring…

  • Run into it. And give your soul a hug for me when you get home, here.

    – C.C. Arshagra

  • Susan van Zyl
    Susan van Zylabout 2 years ago

    Stunning!

  • Susan, Thank so much for being here. And returning!!!!!
    Love to all you love.

    – C.C. Arshagra

  • boswell20
    boswell20about 2 years ago

    This was amazing!!!…totally loved it…It caught me inthe beginning and kept me until the end..great write it was positively exquisite!

  • You konw, I just what to die at moments like this.
    This kind of love and respect is due after a poet dies. I guess i just want to be there.
    I guess I just love dying, It’s the only way to live! Thank you so very much JaNea!

    – C.C. Arshagra

  • chitrali
    chitraliabout 2 years ago

    oh yes… the arts can be sexual. very. …:):):)…xx chitrali..

  • Thank you chitrali, so happy you heard and felt something here.
    Blessed is your sexy understanding.

    – C.C. Arshagra

  • Tom Krantz
    Tom Krantzabout 2 years ago

    So much passion and sensuality in your work, and what a voice, you carry the reader the entire ways on a euphonic spree of beautifully gemed work. great job

  • Euphonic! Maybe that is why passion and sensuality have so much to do with falling and …
    Thank you Tom!

    – C.C. Arshagra

  • Wow Tom, Killer comment. Big thank you, man.

    – C.C. Arshagra

  • coppertrees
    coppertreesover 1 year ago

    Sweet Magic

  • My heart warming gratitude. o, THANK YOU Vickie

    – C.C. Arshagra