“Life on flat land is too easy for a lazy heart.“
Charley Lyman ~ Life in Portofino ~ made this comment on my blog which inspired us to write these poems in response
Adventures with a lazy heart ~ Laura Bloomsbury
Blind at first, in a haze of love laziness
sweetly swooning and prone to the horizontal
taking tumbles into a Midsummer night’s dream*
a spellbound fairy queen, lovely fool
of the sylvan scene, more ass head
than the well-beloved – those donkeys
braying balefully for fresher blood
Then full haste to a heterotopian haven
past the headland of hiatus, headlong into frothing
tossing seas, taking up arms with plundering pirates
and sea-legged as sailors in every Northern port of call
my body keel-hauled, I walked the plank and sank
through a tangled duct of valves and ventricles
Inside the chamber of the heart, in a pulsing play
the well-met by moonlight* joined head
and hands with mine, for an every day scramble
months of mountaineering and the uphill, years-long
struggle at the crossroads, decisions of direction
and riddles as prompt from an existential Sphinx
– until the beating stopped
*converse of Oberon’s speech to Titania in Shakespeare’s’ Midsummer Nights Dream
One of the More Unsettling Aspects of Human Geography -Charley Lyman
Oh, God, save me from the topography of ease!
How can love grow on straightaways? Accelerating
only. Never braking, upshifting, taking the corners —
never, never, never climbing the grade, reaching
a summit to fly recklessly down. Slight, rolling,
almost imperceptible undulations of emotional
entanglement; yet not tangled for you and I travel
in the same, unimaginably predictable direction,
and we become complacent, secure in our love.
Life on flat land is too easy for a lazy heart.
with thanks to Charley @ Life in Portofino for the inspirational quote and the pleasant surprise at seeing how differently we see things
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