Tulip Song

Tulips bloom

Two lips kiss

Too much fun

To miss this

 

Cynthia Liuska

Sept. 1999

I am infused with you.

There is no other.

In the gentle wind,

On the petal of your motion,

You wrapped me

like some child needing sleep.

I slept

and woke.

And from the dormant lake bed,

I crawled through your lips

and felt the moistness of your heart.

Resting on your tongue,

well before words,

I tasted Love.

Here,

the lake was full.

And we swam,

floating on the many layers.

Quenched,

You washed the dust from my feet,

letting the moment dissolve into water,

blessing the ground where we had stood.

Infused with You,

breathing in the sage,

(Oh! the wisdom of the Exhale!)

We sat

Throned,

like the Tulips,

regal and elegant,

but bowing to the gentle wind.

 

JoJo Doig

Sept 11, 1999

When soul rises

Into lips

You feel the kiss

You have wanted

"The garden's fire with joyful blaze. Oh, tulips in the morning rays."

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hands Clasp

Hands clasp
In the delicate fleshes
that are separated only by skin
I feel your pulse, same as my own
In the world of my closed eyes
I feel hands touch me
painting love into my form
My sight opens out of this dream
eyes awakening as if an egg unfolding,
Anew with vision
A woman, welcomed to sit in your throne,
Cries underneath your touch
Spirit of angels
You give and she joins
You all roar, all sing
As one heart

Jaykub Young

Tulip Temple Guest, Burning Man 1999

 

"Among the most beloved of garden flowers, the Tulip is possible the only flower in history to have inspired mass hysteria; seventeen century Holland experienced in the infamous Tulipomania craze, when speculation in Tulip bulbs raged out of control for several years."

 

Quote from the book Tulips

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