Rodin's The Kiss

Mar 16 '04    Write an essay on this topic.


The Bottom Line I love to write about art as well as life.

This poem is inspired by a very well known sculpture by the French artist Rodin. It might be familiar to some of you. Hope you enjoy this one!

Rodin's The Kiss

Two people sit on a rock-bench,
Their heads tilt.
Eyes unseeing and mouths unspeaking,
Frozen together by an ice floe of infatuation.

They copulate in the same position
Every season. Birds leave their droppings on them in summer,
Mid-autumn leaves and rain
Clothe and wash their bodies.
Then winter comes and people stare at them.

From the telephone lines, pales crows watch: the
Two ghostly figures in an embrace.
Tow persons of stone in love
And burning with cold passion.

In the morning, they kiss
Like the young lovers who needed all night
To have one moment of intimacy.
So that when evening comes
They go at it again
With stars as witnesses.



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