Joy Ride
think how your body moved down the avenue of fourteen
hips swaying into tomorrow and the next day
how you curl your tongue around the idea of chocolate
consumed by it even as your body consumes it
how your eyes connect with other eyes,
locking you into that inevitable, unforgettable dance
and feel how your body shudders and utters delight
when you share its secrets
how Beethoven ravaged, savaged your heart
invading, vibrating a joyous ode across tiny ear drums
how your skin felt like silk when you dove into the ocean,
and the salt-flecked water blessed, caressed and ate you
how your body worked to roll out another and another body,
sweating and pushing, pushing and sweating you bore them out
then swooned at the scent of brand new-born pouring
into every open door your body owns
how you are stunned when you rise from a daydream
and your eyes run across the sky, immense, intense with clouds
how you glow when a little boy stops playing
to touch your cheek lightly, politely planting a kiss
how a river of pleasure runs through your nose
when a rose shrugs off its holy fragrance
and oh,
feel how your heart pumped as you jumped on your bike
willing your eight year old legs to ride forever
how you soared, when you stopped on the road to Yosemite, awed
and had to lie on the hood of the car to keep from falling into the stars
and how your heart sings in time with the birds
when spring arrives to banish, vanish winter
your body convulses and pulses with laughter,
tears flowing, you fall down on the floor
when you think what an impossible joy-ride
it has given you
ever since you climbed aboard
at your naked, gasping birth.
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©WabiSabi 2013
For d’Verse “Open Link Night’
For Poets United ‘Poetry Pantry’
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I’ve read this several times….taking in the words you wrote…expressive feelings that I hide and don’t let out…even on paper…thank you very much…I enjoyed what you wrote, and tried to absorb the right to give birth to the inner most thoughts see the light of day.
Thank you very much,
Peace,
Siggi
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Wabi! I am speechless, the best I have read in recent times. No words, just congratulations, I will have to read it several times.
I don’t know why but I am feeling divine after reading this piece.
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This is amazingly powerful … loved it !!!
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You’ve given me a new appreciation for my own joy-ride! I have to say I am mightily impressed by your longer work, although I continue to savor your daily haiku delicacies! 🙂
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this is amazing! really love it!
♥
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Incredibly healing words for me! Thank you.
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Your poem is a very fine meditation. Beautiful!
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Absolutely stunning – a celebration of life itself 🙂
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This resonates with Joy, just wish we could bottle it, and keep it around forever. Incredible writing and thought process. Can’t say enough! Thank you,
Elizabeth
http://soulsmusic.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/in-my-own-space/
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What a joyride I got by reading this poem. Beautifully done and very sensuous.
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like a beautiful time machine.
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What a wonderful gift this piece is, showing your appreciation for the temporal form and the life it offers up. And now, I more greatly appreciate mine. You have served us well, today.
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I am floored by this piece–you have touched a deep sense of the divine in us all
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Oh yes! Every line resonates. I especially love the lying on the floor of the car so one doesnt fall into the stars. What an amazing journey it is and how joyously you have written about it. Applause!!!!!!!!
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such an honest and sincere poem.deeply moving.
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Wow! This piece makes me happy to be alive. Dang. You are amazing. Love everything about this.
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Really vivid imagery and some intense original phrasing, excellent ending too.
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This is absolutely wonderful,,,,how beautifully you express your adventure,,,,so well done,,
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You’re poem was a wonderful joy ride, as well!
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Aha..someone who understand what it is to be alive. Congratulations and long may it continue!
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Both a ride and a joy. Thank you.
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Wabi, I’m sppechless. Absolutely stunning. 🙂 Congratulations 🙂
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quite a ride – enjoyed 🙂
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The opening was amazing, enviably well-done. This was a vivid, visceral jaunt through reflection, definitely worth multiple reads.
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A gorgeous piece! Love it!
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this is nostalgia at its finest. and i can relate to a lot of it.
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Beautiful words. Quite a joy-ride.
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As I read I usually book mark in my cheeks the stanzas or phrases that most delight me… I gave up counting on this one.
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wow…you tingle all the senses in this…bringing us to familiar places….allowing those feelings to come forth from us…nice…your transitions one tot he next were really good as well….
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Amazing. I like the part of how the little boy stops to play to touch your face and give a kiss. You capture all the senses in this piece. http://gatelesspassage.com/2013/02/02/reflections/
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There are definitely people who live every moment of life, not wasting a moment. Those are the ones to surround yourself with. They make life an experience of joy 🙂
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Wow, I love all the sensory experiences of the joy ride ~ This verse particularly struck me:
how a river of pleasure runs through your nose
when a rose shrugs off its holy fragrance
Lovely offering ~ Good to see you at the Pub ~
Grace
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I found I was holding my breath by the end I was that absorbed it the poem. You stole my with the image of the little boy stopping his play…Love it!
Cheers!
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Everything about this incredible poem made me feel so alive. I loved all of it and the couplet about Yosemite brought back fond memories of my childhood too.
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Pretty cool! I love the rose shrugging off its scent – a love of life here. k.
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Simply a joy to read, so much life, so much energy, so much joy and love!
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I think I needed to read something like this right now (stuck as I am with the whole family in flu mode) – a celebration of life, of the human body and what it can bear and do. Beautiful and inspiring!
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LOVE; LOVE; LOVE this…such wonderful tactile images…a shower of emotions…my fav part being …when you stopped on the road to Yosemite, awed
and had to lie on the hood of the car to keep from falling into the stars…. wow..really cool write
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sensual visceral reflective alive =)
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one’s senses are a wonderful thing… you’ve brought them to the surface
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Wow! Amazing. I loved every word and image you created here, and still feel joy pulsing through me.
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[…] was searching for the poem “Joy Ride” by a blogger called “Wabi Sabi”, a poem I had read recently but failed to save. In my search […]
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I just wrote about and linked to your poem in my latest post called “Wabi Sabi Writing” at http://deborahbrasket.wordpress.com
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[…] to read another poem I wrote about my wonderful ‘vehicle,’ , here’s a link to ’Joy Ride.’ Until we meet again, […]
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Incredible writing. Every word so engaging and I could feel it all. You have such a gift to write so gloriously about life…about anything.
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Thank you for your kind and generous comments on my poems, Maggie. For me, experiencing life in the moment, with all the sensual opportunities that implies, is what life is all about. Not yesterday(memories), not tomorrow(worries). Today!
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What a sweet celebration of life!
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