Going Tasaday Poem by Dónall Dempsey

Going Tasaday

Rating: 4.6


The Tasadays
(remants of a Stone Age culture)

recently discovered in the Philippines

have no words
for war, hate or weapons

but favour
the communicative power

of skin

indulging in constant
warm enfolding embraces

loving touches.

So, this Tuesday
let's be Tasadays

hark back
to Stone Age practice

and indulge in

the process of osmosis

soaking each other up

skin to skin.

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Oh how I yearn for...hunger for this woman's skin...a touch mutating into a caresse...transforming into a kiss...a kiss becoming...!
We spend hours just holding each other...the skin of the other offering love comfort and security and sensuality. Ever since we met in Stratford and inadvertently our thighs touched when seated together...that one touch conveyed all that could be said for now and forever. In that one touch we had everything we needed to know about each other and the rest of our bodies just had to catch up!

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Janice Windle 09 September 2008

Away with cynicism and those of little faith in the power of touch to revive the world! We shall go on celebrating Tasaday Tuesday (and Tasaday Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday) whenever we have the opportunity! The Tasadays may not live in the Philippines but here in Guildford there's a little tribe of two!

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Onelia Avelar 08 September 2008

Intersting artifact and the idea. It reminds me of the 'Utopia' by Sir Thomas More. I think the hate is quite natural opposite feeling of love :) However I like your experimental Tasaday, it is very hippie, I join :)

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Grinning from ear to ear... :) t x

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Dónall Dempsey

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Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.
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