BURLESQUE

By well-wisher

Thu, 13 Jan 2011

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Who fills the cobalt glass with bubbling wine?
Who rolls on the long nylons of the night?
Who strokes your BIG refracting telescope?
Who's moonlit clouds are feathered fans of hope?

Who's horizon winks and spreads a brazen eye?
Who lets shadows slip from her curvaceous hills?
Who's bursting bosom strains behind your curtains?
Who's greenery is warm, dripping wet and fragrant?

Aurora! Au-rora! Au-ror-a! Ohhhhh- roarrrrr- aaaahhhh!

Comments

What lovely questions- so

Permalink Submitted by Highhat on Thu, 2011-01-13 22:44

What lovely questions- so colourful ;)Pia

Thanks, Pia. Questions are

Permalink Submitted by well-wisher on Thu, 2011-01-13 23:24

Thanks, Pia. Questions are seduction/ veils in the poem; the answer is nakedness. It's sort of a religious/nature poem. Aurora, the goddess of the dawn is stripping off the night until you see the ecstasy of dawn/rising sun.

Oh look, a link. I wonder where it leads.

JoHn

Hi well-wisher, love the

Permalink Submitted by skinner_jennifer on Fri, 2011-01-14 11:56

Hi well-wisher, love the second stanza:- whos horizon winks and spreads a brazen eye? who lets shadows slip from her curvaceous hills? whose bursting bosom strains behind your curtains? whose greenery is warm, dripping wet and fragrant? such beautiful words expressed and asked. Thankyou for the read. Jenny.

Thanks, Jenny. I was

Permalink Submitted by well-wisher on Fri, 2011-01-14 13:35

Thanks, Jenny. I was watching the movie "Gypsy" where Natalie Wood plays Gypsy Rose Lee and it made me want to write a striptease sort of poem.