On your chocolate harem days, you may be Cleopatra
Or the Queen of Sheba’s daughter
Delicious, flirtatious, expectatious and gracious
Words bouncing around and through you
And out from within you
Poems to soothe friends
Poems to woo a distant love
Poems as sassy and sweet
As tomorrow’s truffle
And of course
Nobody knows the truffles you’ve seen
Not ‘til they’ve seen you
On the deep end of the pool
Lonely, longing, aging, wondering
The clown mask
And woman of complexity
Are you/Unfathomable
Yes and know
As Unfathomathable
As the mind itself
As unknowable as love
As lovely as a summer day
(Probably in California or almost anyplace
Where it stays dry for a minute or two,
Meaning, of course, not Milwaukee
Where it can be as blue as your heart some of these days?
Well, least wise, Lizzy, whizzy, you can say, you’ve got yourself a harem
And how many women can say that?
Kenyatta Yamel
Author notes
My first poem as a harem member
Written July 5th, 2004
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There are some fabulous lines in this! There were moments in it when I felt I had happened upon something very precious, moments I wish I could bottle and relive, so I am bookmarking it.
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Interesting poem for an interesting woman..a woman of many moods..a woman well worth getting to know.
Liz iz a great friend who writes entertaining poems and funny haikus. You seem to know her well, Kenyatta. Well done..you deserve to be in her harem.
Maureen
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by the way, one of my references was to Daughter of the Queen of Sheba, a memoir by NPR reporter Jacki Lyden who grew up in the Milwaukee area with a manic depressive mother. the Queen of Sheba was one of her mother's favorite delusions. the book had a happy ending, however. after many years, Lyden's mother got treatment and was stable.
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yes, you live and while you live you will touch many people through your many guises. mania is difficult to cope with. i am understanding you may be in very different places from one day to the next. it makes you most intriguing. the harem has just begun!
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trust me moses, i am not someone you'd like to meet...kenyatta on the other hand...yes, he sounds like a wonderful person!
~liz -
Sounds like someone I would like to meet! I guess I could say this poem is "deliciously satisfying" in a peculiar kind of way. Good enough for dessert, in fact - and maybe even the main course!
Best wishes,
Moses -
ah kenyatta...now i am sitting here crying. so much of what you wrote is true. almost as though you really know me. for your sake, it is good that you do not. i am the typhoid mary of relationship, romantic or otherwise. so self-absorbed that i cannot get climb out of my own dark abyss, or climb down from the sky.
lonely, longing and aging...yes.
complex...yes
lovely? oh no...not even close
blue hearted? always, even at my most manic
you forgot one too...pathetic
but yes, i do have an online harem...or at least shall i say, i did. it appears most have already vanished! smart men...
and now, i must ready myself for work tomorrow. despised work. when people tell me they love their work, i do not understand. wish i did!
thank you kenyatta...this did touch my heart...and perhaps there is a tiny spot of pink there now, along with the blue.
~liz -
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This is a very good write.Love how everything flows so well and how well you could understand it.Good job again and keep up the great work!
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That is one cute poem. It was sultry in the way the words flowed, and was sexy in some hidden ways. Great job, love the first line!
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