this race
overt comfort in your skin
covertly denouncing mine
tacking up with blinders
shielding views (from you,
from me); dancing for a lark,
this, our ritual mating game -
I count a zero sum result
on one life's landscape.
Venus and The Sailor, 1925, by Salvador Dali
Shared by Tess Kincaid.
Poem © 2012 R. Burnett Baker
Beautiful...I especially like "overt comfort in your skin"...delicious...
ReplyDeletedancing for a lark,
ReplyDeletethis, our ritual mating game
Perhaps the secret lies in taking the dancing more seriously? :) It can be a big turn on...
i like the word play
ReplyDeleteha def some interesting word play...the race, the dance, feeling comfortable in your skin...but a zero sum result...interesting...
ReplyDeleteIsn't that what always happens in the mating game? but sometimes we have to take the 'blinders' off and se it for what it really is.
ReplyDeleteSome guys just don't like dancing. Some don't like talking. He's in trouble if he doesn't like both. :)
ReplyDeleteA ritual mating game can be exhausting given the mass of the dancers! They seem lively though! Nicely, Burnett!
ReplyDeleteHank
.. 'zero sum result' ~ what a futile game they play. Nice write, Rick.
ReplyDelete...a ritual mating game with zero sum result.
ReplyDeleteNow, THAT is efficient agony.
=)
Zero sum game, but never giving up...so it goes!
ReplyDeleteTo be comfortable in their own skin, and still moving forward, past the zero sum...is breaking all chains....of yet another ritual in the mating game!
ReplyDeleteThe mating ritual played out so well
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