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To feel and respond to ask for intimacy and beyond, of touch, smell and sound, being a woman who knows desire.
Here is the fifth winner of our July 2017 Muse of the Month contest, Pooja Sharma Rao.
The cue for this month was from the movie Margarita With a Straw. Women more often than not prefer to do the usual and follow the herd instead of owning their life’s decisions. It is their life, it is their decision. Sexuality is something that we are born with. If my sexuality and sexual preference makes anyone uncomfortable or does not fit into the ‘usual’, then it is not my problem. Why should women or for that matter anyone adjust? This is just the way we are. Accept it or leave it.
“Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.” ― Anaïs Nin
What is sexuality? Sex and reality? Sex (actuality)? Or ability versus (dis) ability Is different ever (in) valid? Can “normal” be defined? Curtailed and confined?
Your world and your colours Only my eyes could not see but dreams are black and white yours and mine same and free
I could though feel the warmth of the same sunlight the eagerness not the swiftness of a bird mid-flight
I could feel too the joys and the pains of friendship and love Forevers and the Never agains
I knew, just like you When seasons changed When autumn arrived Or when it endlessly rained
I was 13 or 14 When I understood P-L-E-A-S-U-R-E was in things other than Books and hunt for treasure
The budding of a body I couldn’t see but touch the language of skin and youth’s gentle nudge
same shivers and fluttering of the elusive first love just like girls with hair and figures smiles, curves and a heart only my blank eyes did set me apart
and the flourishing romance of his deep husky voice the slippery dreams of his masculine fragrance the unintentional brushing of our bodies and the long lasting trance
The words- erotic, exotic, ecstatic Flooding me at once Oh! So fantastic
Only my eyes can’t see The you or a me But in this Differently abled body I have similar sexual Response/ability
To feel and respond to ask for intimacy and beyond of touch, smell and sound
of being a woman who knows desire The body, the dreams the wetness and the fire and owns to infinity her own sexuality !
Pooja Sharma Rao wins a Rs 250 Amazon voucher, as well as a chance to be picked one among the top winners at the end of 2017. Congratulations!
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Pooja Priyamvada is an author, columnist, translator, online content & Social Media consultant, and poet. An awarded bi-lingual blogger she is a trained psychological/mental health first aider, mindfulness & grief facilitator, emotional wellness trainer, reflective read more...
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Author’s note: The language and phraseology used are not the author’s words but the terms and narrative popularly used for people living with mental illnesses, and may feel non-inclusive. It is merely for putting our point across better.
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