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Vector to the Target

by Kalikiano Kalei — Read all 118 poems by Kalikiano Kalei

Love is many things to many people. As the Japanese know, love is also death, since each human being that is born initiates his death with an act of birth. Thus birth and death are part of a whole concept. This piece was inspired by Sukiko, my Sensei in so many things of this Earth and beyond.

Monday, January 21, 2008


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VECTOR TO THE TARGET

 

I am with you as the pilot is with the silver projectile he flies,

Merging his flesh and bone to steel and white-hot flame

As he enters his cocoon of protective complexity and life support

To initiate the measured process of bringing the stored potential of his

Fantastic machine to life, furious energy to the furnaces of its massive

Engines, whining electric activity to its artificial intelligence, and

Coursing, life-giving fluidic circulation to the vital hydraulics of its core.

Once on the ramp, the pilot guides the straining craft towards its mark,

Pausing to run up the screaming engines while awaiting clearance. A final

Check and throttles ram forward to full reheat, the great machine leaping

Like a hungry bird of prey for the freedom of azure skies that wait beyond,

Its power fully unleashed in twin maelstroms of screaming combustion.

 

So too would I enter your female plexis, merge myself within

Your molten core of sensual yin, connecting with dormant fires of

Spiritual force, smoldering blood, soul, and body that is Sukiko the lover and instructor.

So also would I slowly bring your dormant body to electric life, restoring heat to

Your arctic polar core, and feeling to your dulled thresholds of sensate life.

And then, as we paused on the farthest edge of your now awakened sensitivities,

I would plunge myself deeply into full forward thrust, pushing your resistance back

Into the cushions with the spooled-up accelerations of my desire, flying you off

This earth into the most rare and delicious heavens of compressed coital heat

On powerful wings of human sinew and straining muscle, filling your recesses,

Reaching for space to bear you, pinioned and transfixed, across the brilliant

Explosive purple skies of sensory ecstasies, as we soar like Tsuru of the Dawn

Upon the urgent vector of my physical desire for all that are, in the perfect

Loveliness of your womanly warrior form…a vector to the target of your life

That consumes me with recurring passion.

The steel warhead in the velvet missile

Awakened at long last

and on its way to

the target…
 

 



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Reviewed by m j hollingshead
Reviewed on June 16, 2017

powerful imagery

m


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