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The Elephant is Slow to Mate
(Heart's Desire)
Connecting with Her is to feel a flood of the deepest most heartfelt appreciation. it reminds me of this poem THE ELEPHANT IS SLOW TO MATE by D.H.Lawrence
Date: 7/8/2008 1:45:18 PM ( 16 y ago)
11:42 PM
July 8, 08
Got this poem on my mind right now:
This is what it is like when I connect with
Her:
A flood of the deepest heartfelt appreciation.
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The Elephant is Slow to Mate
by D. H. Lawrence
The elephant, the huge old beast,
is slow to mate;
he finds a female, they show no haste
they wait
for the sympathy in their vast shy hearts
slowly, slowly to rouse
as they loiter along the river-beds
and drink and browse
and dash in panic through the brake
of forest with the herd,
and sleep in massive silence, and wake
together, without a word.
So slowly the great hot elephant hearts
grow full of desire,
and the great beasts mate in secret at last,
hiding their fire.
Oldest they are and the wisest of beasts
so they know at last
how to wait for the loneliest of feasts
for the full repast.
They do not snatch, they do not tear;
their massive blood
moves as the moon-tides, near, more near
till they touch in flood.
From The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence, edited by V. De Sola Pinto & F. W. Roberts. Copyright © 1964, 1971 by Angela Ravagli and C. M. Weekly, Executors of the Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc.
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