Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love
Apr. 3rd, 2011 04:11 pmHuman on my faithless arm;
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral:
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.
Soul and body have no bounds:
To lovers as they lie upon
Her tolerant enchanted slope
In their ordinary swoon,
Grave the vision Venus sends
Of supernatural sympathy,
Universal love and hope;
While an abstract insight wakes
Among the glaciers and the rocks
The hermit's sensual ecstasy.
Certainty, fidelity
On the stroke of midnight pass
Like vibrations of a bell,
And fashionable madmen raise
Their pedantic boring cry:
Every farthing of the cost,
All the dreaded cards foretell,
Shall be paid, but from this night
Not a whisper, not a thought,
Not a kiss nor look be lost.
Beauty, midnight, vision dies:
Let the winds of dawn that blow
Softly round your dreaming head
Such a day of sweetness show
Eye and knocking heart may bless,
Find the mortal world enough;
Noons of dryness see you fed
By the involuntary powers,
Nights of insult let you pass
Watched by every human love.
-- W H Auden
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Dec. 30th, 2010 06:16 pm~ Mehmet Erdogan
Repost from genderqueer tumbler...
Aug. 27th, 2010 01:57 pm"Third Sexed & Polysexual
Hi, I’m Elle & I identify, gender wise, as third sexed. Third sexed refers to an individual who doesn’t identify as either conclusively masculine (male) or feminine (female) but an androgynous combination of the two, or having gender fluidity, pangendered, intergendered, gender androgyny, bigendered, or the umbrella term gender queer. I identify as so because I’m in a state to where I’m drawn in both directions of gender. I’m not to be confused with the construct of gender that only defines a binary system of gender — only female or male, but I’m rather both interchangeably. I say this because I’ve got a certain duplicity to my gender. I no more masculine than I am feminine & vice versa. I’m, to best categorise me, both butch & femme rolled into one.
As far as my sexuality would go I identify as polysexual, not definitely lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, or heterosexual — I’m attracted to Bisexuals, FTM & MTF Transexuals, Lesbians, & Heterosexual women. In an attempt to explain, I am attracted to the feminine attributes rather than masculine attirbutes of people in general but for the exception of FTM Transexuals. With MTF Transexuals I’m attracted to the arch of translesbianism; the span of sexuality that is encompassed by a transgender female, if you get my understanding. I’m attracted to FTM, for somewhat of the same reasoning; the feminine attraction is met by the presence of feminine attributes of transgendered men.
I’m not overly complex until it comes to my sexuality. Aesthetics captures my eyes as it does many & it comes in various forms but I only weigh my attraction to feminine attributes & that presence alone.”
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