A Different Slant

The ancient Chinese poets had no room

In lines for love (romantic love), for love

With hairy sex thrown in, but if a groom

Lives long enough with bride, that love’s above

The raunchy stuff so lines can be about

It.  Even then the facts in bed don’t count

Enough for poetry.  A cock grown stout

For wife is not poetic.  He can mount

Her years and years, for decades, but that part

Of married love is unimportant, so

The poets never touch on it.  Descartes

Might say, “I wed and that is love’s one glow.”

  These Chinese poets with their tilted eyes,

    Think love with wildest passion isn’t wise.

~ Phillip Whidden