Two Virgins

[Tiger the Lion]

Two Virgins

In a world wide with images,
snap satisfaction
and wild abandon,
I question the collective dark,

and obsess about holding your hand
in daylight.

[ellajam]

Very nicely done. The title does a lot of work, it has me wondering if the two are young or two kindred spirits rejecting current culture. I like question vs obsession and darkness vs daylight. Thanks for the read.

[Tiger the Lion]

Very nicely done. The title does a lot of work, it has me wondering if the two are young or two kindred spirits rejecting current culture. I like question vs obsession and darkness vs daylight. Thanks for the read.

Thanks Ella. I pray it's the latter.
You always find something positive to say about my poems, musings, self-indulgent meanderings. I always appreciate it.
Paul

[Bunx]

Love the tone in the this poem. It's saying many things in such a few lines. About human nature, innocence, and currently society. Thanks for the read!

[RiverNotch]

I like this. I'm starting to get a bit irked about stuff that declares what *current* society is, but there's a sense here that, though the words would only be fully understood in the context of today, the sentiment would apply to pretty much all periods through time, or perhaps all periods of youth/mid-life crises -- and then there's a jump to love, which again though portrayed here in language more, at least to me, sensual to make sense outside of today, still contains a feeling defying context. There's a bit of irony, however, in how the speaker rejects (by questioning) the world of *wild abandon*, then suddenly obsesses about holding another's hand (which, ignoring your comment on kindred spirits, would be more sensually informed by the title) -- but I guess that only makes the message more even, rather than more remote in its absurdity. Although perhaps it's a contrast between love purely directed inward than directed to another -- but then, in my mind, the eternal contrast is always between sensuality and spirituality, with outward in the physical world never really meaning anything, but whatever.

[Tiger the Lion]

Thanks so much Bunx and River. I haven't produced anything of length in awhile, but for Feb and March I've written 6 or 7 short pieces that I'm pretty pleased with. (or most of them, at least) I'm a little disillusioned with ELH and wonder if there even is such a thing. But I'm a huge fan of tight, compact pieces, and I've had some really encouraging feedback lately. Thanks for reading everyone.
Paul