Penny For Your Thoughts by

Can I have a penny, for your thoughts?
As a matter of fact how about three
One penny for you
One penny for me
And one penny for our minds engaged
Not so sexually
Getting intimately closer
As we approach the climactic altitude
Of nude mental sensational conversation
cuz I’m trying to get to know everything about you
from the neck UP
So these are not your typical sexual poetical prose
I’m trying to close the door of an all too familiar freaky foreplay game
With which most people have chosen to approach you
While they’re trying to get deeply embedded in the fine fibers of your bed sheets
I’m trying to find and define the fibers with which your mind speaks
I want to engage you by putting a two carat solitaire diamond on your mind
and marrying your every thought
I want to lick every inch of every crevice so I can get an oral fix from each orifice
and taste your passionate imagination
I’d rather be naked and exposed holding you as we’re lying
And your crying while confiding and describing the tough times you had in life
And how you don’t know if you can keep a relationship
Long enough to be somebody’s wife
I want to feel the heartbeat of all your inner rhythms as they lead me towards your
warm wet waterfalls of feminine thoughts
And I’ll swim within ‘em from back strokes to breast strokes
I’m penetrating every entrance to your mind
Taking my time to find out everything about you
Did I ever tell you about how you fell asleep in my presence?
And your mere essence kept me up for hours
As I coward with this feel of a sexually unadulterated mental connection
And as you laid by my side I pushed my blinds aside
And took the time in the moonlight of that night
To county seventy-two eyelashes on the upper eyelid of your right eye
Because as you sleep
As you sleep they remain open slightly
And while we probably move too quickly into some sexual stuff
I’ve always cared more about the explicitly illicitness
that came from between your lips meaning your voice
so now I’m standing here ready to trade in all the sexual acts that we perform
for the chance to reform the very foundation and basis of our relationship
and I reiterate my opening statement
And I offer you another penny for your thoughts

My boyfriend showed me this poem because it's his favorite and now it's mine. I just think people- especially teens- get caught up in the who slept with who bologna and it's nice to know that there are people who actually want to look deeper than the sexually explicit material in the world around us. There is a saying " Sex Sells," and maybe it's true but you just have to keep buying more of it. It never lasts like really getting to know someone and who they are on the inside. I really thought it was very serendipitous that I would hear this poem and Christian had just written the creative writing paper about his first time. I think it is funny in the poem because it seems like you wait until the end to hear the horrible, dirty, graphic stuff and then he says something poetic and profound. I thought it was amazing because this poet really seems like he wants a change in his life and the way he views his relationships. I believe in true love and I believe that this poet has found true love and he really wants to savor all the amazing things about this girl he is with instead of pretending they are close by having sex.I think that so many people believe that sex is as close as you can be to someone, but I believe that knowing someone better than you know yourself and knowing without asking how that person feels is as close as you can get to them. " I want to engage you by putting a two carat solitaire diamond on your mind and marrying your every thought" is my favorite line because it's not like he's like " Well, let's run out and get married." It's more of a " I want to see everything you see and know all the things you are thinking about." I love this poem so much now. It's much better to watch the real poet preform it instead of just reading it. It's on YouTube :)

Mr. Fear

I really liked this poem. It was pretty typically in form. Six stanzas with four lines in each, but it was very impacting. I really like the part "Maybe he smiles when he finds the right one. Maybe he's sorry. Tell me, Mr. Fear, what must I carry" because it just really made me picture a man searching through a bag and without looking he knows what he's found and he smiles or maybe it's almost like he searched and searched through his bag like he didn't want to find the fear and when his hand reaches it he feels sympathy for what he has to put you through. It really shows how we feels as human beings. We may say that it is okay to fear, but we don't want a huge fear. We want a small one, maybe one we won't have to face everyday. Everyday we may be able to get over fears and so he " keeps track" and he must change what he carries in his sack. I thought it was strange in the part about the crickets because it's like when you hear something, but don't see it, it's not as scary. Perhaps you are just hearing things? Only when you see it in your dreams does it really become that fear. Only when you have to face it is it scariest of all. Over all I really thought the poem was cool. It's a cool view of how people have different fears and how they come to realize them.