Arthur Seymour John Tessimond Touch Poems

  • 1.
    Wouldn't you say,
    Wouldn't you say: one day,
    With a little more time or a little more patience, one might
    Disentangle for separate, deliberate, slow delight
    ...
  • 2.
    This trumpeter of nothingness, employed
    To keep our reason dull and null and void.
    This man of wind and froth and flux will sell
    The wares of any who reward him well.
    ...
  • 3.
    One day people will touch and talk perhaps
    easily,
    And loving be natural as breathing and warm as
    sunlight,
    ...
  • 4.
    Dogs take new friends abruptly and by smell,
    Cats' meetings are neat, tactual, caressive.
    Monkeys exchange their fleas before they speak.
    Snakes, no doubt, coil by coil reach mutual knowledge.
    ...
  • 5.
    I am the unnoticed, the unnoticable man:
    The man who sat on your right in the morning train:
    The man who looked through like a windowpane:
    The man who was the colour of the carriage, the colour of the mounting
    ...
  • 6.
    People will touch and talk perhaps easily,
    And loving be natural as breathing,
    And warm as sunlight;

    ...
  • 7.
    You cannot see the walls that divide your hand
    From his or hers or mine when you think you touch it.

    You cannot see the walls because they are glass,
    ...
Total 7 Touch Poems by Arthur Seymour John Tessimond

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