Pink Orchid
Hello all, the theme for the poetry portfolio is Erotic Poetry:
Please share any thoughts, responses, opinions about the poem below. Ask questions, make comments among yourselves and say as much as you can about the poem. You can get started by telling what the poem is about, is it more sexual rather than romantic, etc......
Pink Orchid
pink orchid of love
fragrant flower so rare
of desire's full bloom
nestled in that glade
below your mossy rise
my tongue, a hummingburd
hungry for passion's nectar
hovering above you, wanting
to drink so deep, and long
till my thirst is quenched
my hungry heart is filled
but for a short blissful time
then hungry again, takes wing
to drink deeply of you again
sweet pink orchid of desire
Please share any thoughts, responses, opinions about the poem below. Ask questions, make comments among yourselves and say as much as you can about the poem. You can get started by telling what the poem is about, is it more sexual rather than romantic, etc......
Pink Orchid
pink orchid of love
fragrant flower so rare
of desire's full bloom
nestled in that glade
below your mossy rise
my tongue, a hummingburd
hungry for passion's nectar
hovering above you, wanting
to drink so deep, and long
till my thirst is quenched
my hungry heart is filled
but for a short blissful time
then hungry again, takes wing
to drink deeply of you again
sweet pink orchid of desire
posted by eroticpoetry at 3:17 PM
25 Comments:
I think this poem has a lot of meaning in it. And an answer to your question, jais, I think the only "sexual" part of the poem is the 2nd stanza..eespecially the words "tongue, passion, wanting and thirst" they give a feel of desire and longing over his lover. I think..that the second and third stanzas are talking of how he/she feels when they kiss their lover..?
Actually, Joud, I think the poem is completely sexual. The poet compares the act of sex to thirst- and how desired it is before. You know how starved you are before you drink. But then when you drink and you satisfy your thirst, the sensation is wonderful. It's the same for sex- the speaker is thirsty, but even once the act is finished, he wants it again.
Most of the poem is sexual but there is a part where the poet says "my hungry heart". So it's also about feelings and real love, not just physical desire. The poet compares himself to a bird, watching over what he desires. And to answer your question...the poem is definetly more sexual than romantic.
One question...why does the author say "hummingburd" rather than "hummingbird"?
ohhh! hmmm! It is not really sexual, it's more erotic, sensual, I guess! The narrator is describing his love, using sex-driven vocabulary, and the actual act of sex, as you say jais! I, personally, don't like the poem because it's too descriptive, too precise! It's not ambivalent, it holds one meaning, and that is sex, or what relates to sex! Being a woman, I don't like the poem in the sense it portrays the woman as the dominated, while the man, the dominant, "drinks of her"????!!! She is not a stream!!!! lol! Anyhow, that's my opinion, you might disagree!
Maybe because - the poem was written by some random amateur over the net. That still doesn't prevent the fact that the poem is very nicely poetic. It makes sex into a beautiful act rather than a hardcore thing that people normally portray it is.
***oopsies! i meant, ...NOT the actual act of sex!
Lamiaa - a sexual poem doesn't have a negative connotation- erotic or sensual it can still bring about great feelings of love. Perhaps the ultimate act of love is sex, when it is mutually felt with passion. It is the 'final stage' so the man is actually not dominating the woman. He is pleasuring her when he "drinks her", which is in reference to cunilingus/oral sex. Cunilingus is one of women's greatest fantasies and desires, so the man is actually being dominated. It gives the image to woman that they take control and make men do whatever they want! It is quite ambivalent, I have to disagree. Sex is not just SEX. Sex holds physicality, desire, passion, love, romantic, feelings, pleasure...It depends in what ways you see it. I have a question to all of you and especially Lamiaa- what type of sex is being portrayed in the poem? Physical, 'hardcore', loving, passionate, ?
i think the poem is indeed sexual, and the powerful words such as tongue, passion, thirst, etc are powerful because they are imagery; they make the reader imagine things ;) however, it is a teeny teeny bit romantic too
Well I think the poet uses sexual words, to show his love to a woman. So it does have sexual connotation, but still it has a much deeper meaning than just physical stuff!
About waht u said lamiaa.. that its "insulting" for women..what if the poet IS a woman !?
Joud- I re read the poem, and I would think it is a male because an "orchid of desire" and "pink" could only signify the beauty of a woman's desired sex...I mean I think it could even be a passionate act between two lesbians (as it reminds me of Sappho and Lesbo)...It has the whole desired, sensual, connotation. Why is the 'woman' getting so much pleasure out of pleasuring her partner. I'm pretty sure its a mutual act- knowing that once her 'thirst is quenched', she is going to get something out of it. A female wouldn't get too much pleasure out of 'drinking a man so deep.' It's definitely a feminine poem.
--Question to all:-----
What does the pink orchid of love/flower that is blooming signify? How is it similar or comparable to what you think the orchid signifies?
As Jais said this poem refers to female fellatio, or cunnilingus. An act in which the male is sort of bowing down to the female trying to fulfill her sexual desires.
The poem all about sexual passion, and sexual desire, I didn't get anything from it to indicate that it might be about love.
The pink orchid described is cleary the female clitoris, the clitoris is the key to the woman's satisfaction. It is compared to an orchid because an orchid is a very attrative flower so I think the narrator is trying to emphasize the beauty of this sexual experience.
This poem also describes how someone's sexual desire is never really satisfied, you can "quench your thirst" temporarily, but you will soon be driven to want more.
I agree with Paul Noel- it definitely is the clitoris. This is because the clitoris is at first a hidden and very sensitive part of the vagina. But once the woman is sexually aroused, it becomes more visible and accessible by the male. In this case, it "blooms" and wants to be pleasured. Though this poem can reveal many explicit thoughts and images, it is nicely put in a poetic form.
Ok, I really don't understand how anyone could have been curious as to what the pink orchid is meant to symbolise - it hit me in the face as soon as I finished the 1st stanza. I don't think it's the clitoris actually, rather the vagia itself (anyone ever heard of a fragrant clitoris?).
The purpose of this poem, I find, is somewhat complicated an misleading. Yes, it is describing the act of cunilingus, which is an act of humility and servitude performed by the man for the woman, but the way he describes his own sentiments - "wanting to drink so deep, and long till my thirst is quenched" - gives the impression that he is not doing this for the woman in order to give her pleasure, but in fact to satisfy his own hunger for sexual intimacy.
So in a way, this poem both idolises and condescends women at the same time. It depicts women as a sacred garden, host of the flower of desire, while at the same time, it portrays them as something consumable - "to drink deeply of you again". It is clear that this sexual act evokes absolutely no romantic feelings in the author, only the rush of sexual desire. That, added to that fact that the whole poem focuses on the bounty of a woman's vagina, makes the woman here out to be nothing but a pawn in the author's insatiable thirst for sexual stimulation.
Pink Orchid
pink orchid of love: If you’re looking from the whole sexual context the use of the color pink can suggest somewhat innocence, the idea of virginity and simple beauty.
fragrant flower so rare: this implies that this poem is entirely all about sex, but about being with the one, the one that you love 'desire'.
of desire's full bloom
nestled in that glade
below your mossy rise: or maybe the idea that love and beauty lies within, below the mossy rise of the orchid can imply that below the surface of something, to the roots. Internal beauty and pleasure, comes from within and not necessarily from what you see. If you need to look at it from the whole sexual idea, every woman obtains the same ‘pleasurable’ opening or way of desire, but the pleasure is different, with the one you’ll always desire.
my tongue, a hummingburd: the tongue is very sexual, meaning maybe he wants to taste every moment, making 'sex' or love seem somewhat more memorable and cherishable. The use or choice of the hummingbird is a rather symbolical choice because the poet could’ve chosen a bee which also takes nectar from flowers, but bees aren’t as gentil as hummingbirds. Hummingbirds are rarely seen, and are fragile and hidden.
hungry for passion's nectar: also, the over use of being hungry (assuming that the poet is a man), can show the savage, and primitve image of a man. Being beastly, and knowing what they want-and in return quenching their hungriness. This is also a contrast between males and females, men being savage and beast like and women innocent and fragile like a flower.
hovering above you,: hovering above you is again sexual with the whole love making idea.
wanting to drink so deep, and long: to take all of it in, until theres nothing left.
till my thirst is quenched
my hungry heart is filled
but for a short blissful time: shows that happiness can come from within.
then hungry again, takes wing: the idea of having to work for something you desire soo much, taking ‘wing’ gives the idea of aviation, you have to strive to fly-meaning you have to work for the things that you desire the most.
to drink deeply of you again
sweet pink orchid of desire: the ending, or crux line shows that there is only one person that he desires soo much, one person that he’d rather do anything with. The one person he’d always come back to. He could've said and desiring another kind of orhid, or another flower, but that suggests theres one person he truly desires.
Maybe this poem could not only be about sex and having to quench your desires and urges, and all the hormones that one person has for the opposite sex. Though it seems to be more than that, maybe its about making ‘love’, the feeling it is to actually satisfy one’s ‘hunger for passion’s nectar’, with someone who actually means the world to you, to taste everything, to ‘drink so deep and long’ to just admire, to be infatuated with the one you’re making love to.
Ok that’s all I can think of now. Hope that I helped you.
-nichole-
i doubt that the poet is a woman. the act which jais is describing, i believe, is only done by the man, no????!!
Though it is considered "erotic" and sexual, I really like this whole "thrist" idea and all the CRAVING, its as if the person is never satisfied...and wants even more! He drinkes at first until he's need is fulfilled, however, the nectar of this pink orchid is so sweet and enticing, that he just can't get enough of it. For instance, he says
"my hungry heart is filled
but for a short blissful time
then hungry again, takes wing
to drink deeply of you again"
Its as if this person lives off the nectar of this woman...In a way its beautiful and in another its scary. This may sound weird, but it reminds me so much of a vampire's thirst: they live off the blood (in this case nectar) and can never get enough...always seeking to drink even deeper than the time before.
ohhhh one more thing, when i read the poem again...it reminded me of something! its like that part in Othello, where i dont know who i think Roderigo tells Iago or someone that his body is his garden, and the plants/flowers that are to be in the garden are up to the WILL of the errr...gardner. This might not make any sense but it does to me! XD
This poem reminded me of it cuz its as if (in a way) this man is just there to satisfy his ever-growing hunger...and its the pink orchid that fell under his claws this time!
XD
i think thaty the poem is more sexual than romantic, because the poet is comparing the person to a humingbird which feeds itself the whole day. And so the person which the poet is reffering to is so passionate that he needs love, more and more and more. And he'll never have enough. It needes to fill itself forever. DESIRE, ASSION AND LOVE are what he is what the person is looking for!
Ok, I have to agree with yaz on the condescending tone of the entire poem. Yes, the woman is feeding the man's "hungry heart," yet it stops exactly at that. There is an almost superficial aspect that outlays the poem. In this case, the woman is made the object of lust and thus it's almost as if she loses her human value. Overall, the patronizing attitude is emphasized, partially because of the narration and the manner and diction used; such as, "wanting to drink so deep, and long till my thirst is quenched." Throughout the poem, I sense an almost mocking tone, because the man is purely trying to satisfy his own needs here, and trying to quench his own thirst. However, in order to lure the woman, who will consequently aid the man in quenching his desires, the man calls her "pink orchid of love," etc. It's almost as if the man's longing for "passion's nectar," keeps increasing as the poem goes along, and in the end the craving and yearning is so strong that he says, "my hungry heart is filled but for a short blissful time then hungry again." In general, the one thing that strikes me the most is the fact that there is no reference to the woman throughout the poem, other than an object of sexual desire, or an object that will eventually please the man.
This poem is obviously evokes sexual feelings more than romantic ... the vocabulary, the imagery, the ACT on the whole is sexual. The guys is not only tryin to satisfy his partner, but to satisfy his own sexual needs. Although it could be argued that it has somewhat of a subtle romantic connotation, it is mostly sexual.
I think this poem is completely erotic although it could be interpreted in different ways... I also dont get why the author writes "hummingburd" instead of hummingbird...
Other than that: What do you think the point of the poem really is except to compare thirst with sex (I guess)??
interesting poem, many sexual connotations. The whole hummingbird and drinking necture quenching thirst, very interesting. To quech the sexual thirst only to want it again, very honest, very interesting.
Even though i don't like a lot of sexuality in literary, I really like the personification he gives to every body part involved in what they're doing. The personification both made the poem much more respectable in the sense where we don't look down or look at what they're doing with a bad opinion and it also made everything so much more erotic and romantic.
Thank you to all that participated in this web blog conversation and thanks for your time everyone. I am closing the discussion as I am in the process of writing my rationale as I speak. However if you DO still want to have a poetry discussion contact me! just kidding...
I hope you guys realize that we did a lot more analysis and explicating through commenting other people's blogs, so it wasn't really a six poem portfolio but more like 20!
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