# Sexiest Poetry **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 21, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-poetry/176486 "2003-05-21T03:16:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_MacDairmuid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_MacDairmuid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_MacDairmuid)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-poetry/176486/21 "2003-05-22T08:29:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eonwe \* > \*\*Am I the only one who thought the OP was _sexist_ poetry? > > [Nigel Tuffnel] > What’s wrong with being sexy? > [/NT] \*\* [Nigel Tuffnel Paraphrase] I’m very much influenced by Mozart and Bach. This is sort of a “Mach” piece. It’s called “Lick My Love Pump.” [/NT paraphrase] ---
**Author:** ![HDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bb73d2/32.png) [@HDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HDS)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-poetry/176486/22 "2003-05-22T12:33:28Z")
Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti. snippets: “We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?” She clipped a precious golden lock, She dropped a tear more rare than pearl, Then sucked their fruit globes fair or red: Sweeter than honey from the rock, Stronger than man-rejoicing wine, Clearer than water flowed that juice; She never tasted such before, How should it cloy with length of use? She sucked and sucked and sucked the more Fruits which that unknown orchard bore; She sucked until her lips were sore; Then flung the emptied rinds away But gathered up one kernel-stone, And knew not was it night or day As she turned home alone. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-poetry/176486/23 "2003-05-22T14:49:29Z")
_Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Depair,_ in Spanish: [http://www.nas.com/~wagill/neruda/veinpoem/](http://www.nas.com/~wagill/neruda/veinpoem/) I’m still poking around online for an English translation. I’ll keep y’all posted, but really, Neruda’s work is rather distracting, as it tends to make my mind wander…can you believe this stuff was published in Chile, in 1924? The Amazon review of one English translation, with biographic info: [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140186484/102-0318592-9224140?vi=glance](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140186484/102-0318592-9224140?vi=glance) “This collection of poems, first published by Neruda at the age of 19 in 1924, caused something of a scandal because of its frank and intense sexuality: “I have gone marking the atlas of your body / with crosses of fire. / My mouth went across: a spider, trying to hide. / In you, behind you, timid, driven by thirst.” It later became one of Neruda’s best-loved works, selling two million copies by the 1960s. Why? With image after arresting image, Neruda charts the oceanic movements of passion, repeatedly summoning imagery of the sea and weather: “On all sides I see your waist of fog, / and your silence hunts down my afflicted hours; / my kisses anchor, and my moist desire nests / in you with your arms of transparent stone.” As irresistible as the sea, love is engulfing (“You swallowed everything, like distance. / . . . In you everything sank!”), but also departs as mysteriously as it arrived, leaving the poet’s heart a “pit of debris, fierce cave of the shipwrecked.” ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-poetry/176486/24 "2003-05-22T15:05:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mastema \* > \*\*Sex Without Love > > How do they do it, the ones who make love > without love? Beautiful as dancers, > Gliding over each other like ice-skaters > over the ice, fingers hooked > inside each other’s bodies, faces > red as steak, wine, wet as the > children at birth, whose mothers are going to > give them away. How do they come to the > come to the come to the God come to the > still waters, and not love > the one who came there with them, light > rising slowly as steam off their joined > skin? These are the true religious, > the purists, the pros, the ones who will not > accept a false Messiah, love the > priest instead of the God. They do not > mistake the lover for their own pleasure, > they are like great runners: they know they are alone > with the road surface, the cold, the wind, > the fit of their shoes, their over-all cardio > vascular health–just factors, like the partner > in the bed, and not the truth, which is the > single body alone in the universe > against its own best time. > > ``` > -- Sharon Olds ** > > ``` I love Sharon Olds. I was actually thinking more along the lines of “First Sex” myself–but maybe that’s too obvious. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-poetry/176486/25 "2003-05-22T15:06:21Z")
Hear Neruda reciting his own poetry (in Spanish)…man, if he weren’t dead, I’d definitely have the hots for him! [http://www.neruda.cl/obra/obra3.htm](http://www.neruda.cl/obra/obra3.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Mastema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@Mastema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mastema)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-poetry/176486/26 "2003-05-22T15:59:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by auntie em \* > \*\*I love Sharon Olds. I was actually thinking more along the lines of “First Sex” myself–but maybe that’s too obvious. \*\* It’s the repetition in lines 8 and 9 that do it for me in this poem. That, and the decidedly non-PC spin on things. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-poetry/176486/27 "2003-05-22T16:53:05Z")
I always liked: > [@](#): > > the boys i mean are not refined > they go with girls who buck and bite > they do not give a fuck for luck > they hump them thirteen times a night > > one hangs a hat upon her tit > one carves a cross on her behind > they do not give a shit for wit > the boys i mean are not refined > > they come with girls who bite and buck > who cannot read and cannot write > who laugh like they would fall apart > and masturbate with dynamite > > the boys i mean are not refined > they cannot chat of that and this > they do not give a fart for art > they kill like you would take a piss > > they speak whatever’s on their mind > they do whatever’s in their pants > the boys i mean are not refined > they shake the mountains when they dance and, even better: > [@](#): > > she being Brand > > -new;and you > know consequently a > little stiff i was > careful of her and(having > > thoroughly oiled the universal > joint tested my gas felt of > her radiator made sure her springs were O. > > K.)i went right to it flooded-the-carburetor cranked her > > up,slipped the > clutch(and then somehow got into reverse she > kicked what > the hell)next > minute i was back in neutral tried and > > again slo-wly;bare,ly nudg. ing(my > > lev-er Right- > oh and her gears being in > A 1 shape passed > from low through > second-in-to-high like > greasedlightning)just as we turned the corner of Divinity > > avenue i touched the accelerator and give > > her the juice,good > > ``` > (it > > ``` > > was the first ride and believe i we was > happy to see how nice she acted right up to > the last minute coming back down by the Public > Gardens i slammed on > > the > internalexpanding > & > externalcontracting > brakes Bothatonce and > > brought allofher tremB > -ling > to a:dead. > > stand- > ;Still) Both by e.e. cummings. (Okay, okay: the first isn’t exactly sexy to me, but the first stanza always cracks me up, and it includes sex, sooooo…) ---
**Author:** ![Anahita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Anahita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anahita)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-poetry/176486/28 "2003-05-22T19:50:22Z")
Oh Beloved, take me. Liberate my soul. Fill me with your love and release me from the two worlds. If I set my heart on anything but you let fire burn me from inside. Oh Beloved, take away what I want. Take away what I do. Take away what I need. Take away everything that takes me from you. -Rumi (Jelaluddin Rumi) ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-poetry/176486/29 "2003-05-22T22:40:33Z")
Great Ceaser’s Ghost am I a Moron!!! I read the title and swear to you it said “Sexist Poetry”… took me about half a thread to figure it out. I guess my 3rd grade teacher was right when she said spelling was important… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-poetry/176486.md?page=1)