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Zaftig -- a summer poem to ward off the cold

Bless elasticity, summer shorts, dog days’ bark. Your hair ends curled with sweat bring me to my knees. Let me fan your curves, your every inch. Let me lose myself in temptation’s folds. Our opposites...

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H---holding back. the narrator crazy, hot for this person---this creature.less narrator with his repeated declarations. describe the creature.La Garçonne - Wikipedia, the free...

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zaftig > zaftik > ... My vision of you is full. Crush me with your juicer.

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Maybe jump from "our opposites fit" to "crush me with love." Curious title, considering that cold seems nowhere in sight in this sweaty drama. I take the cold to indicate that this is a long-time...

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thanks for the comments -- B -- you want more creature abu - no juicer please deborah -- the title really is just Zaftig -- the rest was just an aside for the post here back to the fire

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"hair ends" was a bit funny for me, H. not sure if i,m supposed to see pubic hair escaping shorts, or see downy arms dewed. anyway, not a turn-on, lol i'm somewhat with Bernie here in that i want less...

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Hi Hadley Strong ending to this short but evocative piece. Unusual language that departs from the expected. Nicely written throughout. No nits. Keep up the good work, Hadley. All the best Chris

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abujabri wrote:zaftig ; zaftik ... My vision of you is full. Crush me with your juicer. zaftig means juicy.... it's YOUR title....and 'crush me with your love,' is....i dont want to be hurtful, but...

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On the other hand, crush me with your juicer is crude. It suggests more objectification of a degrading sort than it does enamoration unless it was part of a well-established lovers' language between...

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Don't worry about being hurtful. It's only your opinion that it is "pathetic". If I let one persons offhand opinion hurt, then I would be pathetic Pleasingly plump ... Full figured is the way I...

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zaftig is german -- zaftik is yiddish...... literal meaning = juicy..... and youre right: - it is used to denote pleasingly plump....... a thin women with a well endowed bossom can also be 'zaftik'...

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in this stanza, where you need at least one comma and maybe two, you dispence with punctuation You hair ends curled with sweat bring me to my knees. Let me in this stanza you put in a comma where you...

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besides the 1st stanza -- the only way to save the rest of this poem is to relay some fetishness of sorts....get kinky. crush me with your love --- doesnt do anything for anyone.... well not to me at...

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....okay, so you wont use that suggestion. you'll think up something better, i'm sure!

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try:- My vision of you is myopic. CrAsh into me with your love. that's a bit better, i think....

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It's time for you to drop it, abujabrie. In fact you should have dropped it seven posts ago when you said, I don't want to be hurtful. What your suggestions are doing is kicking the poem from one...

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this is from stanza 2: You hair ends curled with sweat bring me to my knees.....'You hair ends...' is nonsence english You COMMA hair ends curled with sweat bring me to my knees ....THE COMMA returns...

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yes, it was an error -- should have been YourI understand the resistance to the last line -- although I do not like any of the offered suggestions. the original last line was Crush me with the weight...

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I like the original line better. Much better. Before you wrote the above I would have suggested leaving the final line out or else to say "crush me with it", even though we are advised not to end a...

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thanks jd -- just shows that sometimes first choices are the best....i'm sure this one will keep evolving

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hadley, please note that my opinions are not 'offhand' as you said above.... i take the time and make an effort to actualy read the words in front of me, before i offer an opinion. there is a tendency...

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