Ingrid Goff Maidoff - Tending Joy

Sometimes a Kiss Can Do That, from the book What Holds Us

Posted on: February 12th, 2010 by ingrid 4 Comments

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Sometimes A Kiss Can Do That:

 

unhinge a rusted gate

to let the moonlight in;

 

send rain to a parched field,

to play the dust like a drum;

 

release a hollow ache;

warm a stubborn chill;

 

build a bridge, a raft,

a momentary trust.

 

Sometimes, through a kiss

we open

 

to the infinite world

that holds us.

 

I’m not saying all the time,

but sometimes.

 

And sometimes

this is enough.

~Ingrid

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4 Responses

  1. joanne says:

    Ingrid… what a beautiful poem… the kiss… something so intimate, tender, sensual and passionate… it opens us to the infinite… the infinite that holds us… and connects us… and is love itself….

  2. Jan says:

    So lovely…Is this one of your new poems, Ingrid? It deeply touches me. And what also strikes me is that the way you describe this kiss is not just in a romantic way. A kiss given to a friend, a child, even a pet, opens us in untold ways. How wonderful that we can kiss…
    xo to you!

  3. cindy landy says:

    Beautiful!

  4. Love this, Ingrid! Really beautiful and sensual. Thank you for sharing your heart always!

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