Every Lover Needs A guitar...

With inspiration by David E. Lewis who wrote "A Lover Needs A Guitar".

This morning while working to stay slim, I concocted the notion that if you were looking for a truly gifted lover, the best place to look would be among musicians.

That does not mean or should not suggest that only musicians are gifted lovers - I'm not a musician.... Nor does it mean that every musician is a gifted lover. I do believe however that among musicians there are more truly gifted lovers than among any other identifiable segment of humanity.

Now your idea of what constitutes a truly gifted lover may differ significantly from mine (or everyone else's for that matter). However, in my mind, lovemaking is the music of touch - rhythm, melody, harmony, and as we used to say, "the space between the notes".

The most gifted lovers add voices - dramatic narrative, suspense, comedy, and small animal sounds.

Someone a friend of mine knows wrote:

"the task of a lover
is the life of a magician

to slowly convince your body
to dissolve
in a wash of kisses

and then to pull it back
through the keyhole
of surprise"

© 2005, 2007,2009
David L. Potter

Wow!!! E-Publishing

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Well I've vacuumed and I'm ready for visitors. I'll just pour myself a glass....

The Hierarchy of Questions is the published version of a submission to the CBC Literary Competition which I submitted under the title "Random Punctuation...".

"Theories About Summer" has improved a little in the last few days. The 'improved' part is the ugly distractions are gone, so now there's just the things that keep readers from using my name and the word 'literary' during the same week... ;-)

Several of these poems were presented in workshop in Tatamagouche several years ago. It would be delightful to bring the spirit of workshop discussion to the web!

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"Theories about Summer..." is available in Adobe PDF format.

I am happy to discuss individual poems. I'm always fascinated about how individual interpretations can venture into ideas and down roads that I would never have expected.

(1) Frequent question... ...in case you were curious.

David