A poet doesn't retire....

Jeg beskriver mig selv som

Sorry about all this "I" speech. Hard to avoid sounding egotistical in these mini-life-stories. I'm a word guy, making my living by them. But I also shape and publish them for my pleasure and yours (I hope). Went adventuring and saw the world early--took chances, had more fun than I can tell here--so certain midlife yearnings aren't much of an issue for me. I'm an ex-academic, a writer and poet who paid for part of my education from working on Gulf tankers, where heavy labor shaped my shoulders, back and arms. Sought my fortune first in consulting and banking, now in corporate communications for a large electrical contractor which has me learning a challenging new business. I'm a free thinking, practicing Unitarian--whatever that means. I read cookbooks for pleasure and am adventurous about food. Manage to stay fit, though my cooking habit keeps me working hard. I enjoy women for themselves and the great relief of their company. Kindness is where one starts as it is indispensable, along with a tolerant, sympathetic imagination. Prefer less to hear myself talk than to share the pleasures of real conversation--which can be about anything. The surprises and discoveries of living, what we read what we learn. What we wish we knew better. Lately, I've been moved by the work of Martin Buber--and the idea of soul making that takes place in the "between" of dialog. Music--singing in a choir and playing (saxophones, clarinets--jazz and whatever my friends and i make up) are vital, dancing whenever I can. I am practiced in being steadfast in relationships, and require being at least serially monogamous. Tenderness, imagination and listening and above all, patience in love. It is after all an art of discovery--endlessly interesting--and one in which we never stop learning from one another. But life, alas, is brief and we are, as Blake insisted, compelled to kiss joy as it flies, as indeed it inevitably will.The woman I seek enjoys being herself; she takes care of herself physically, emotionally and yes, intellectually. She needn't be conventionally beautiful, merely graceful and above all charming. Young in spirit, she takes pleasure in fighting the good fight against the inevitable. She should be adventurous, if not ambitious. Hopefully, she doesn't take herself or me too seriously, who views life and loving as play--though not as a game. More wit than hip, unafraid of the outright intellectual, a libertine with an appetite for truth (Madame De Stael with a touch of Anais Nin), who can laugh at the comedy in herself and hopefully in me. Someone who takes her pleasure where and when she chooses, and she chooses often to enjoy the arms of a passionate and generous lover. High spirited, even if touched occasionally by melancholy. Her past has marked but not engulfed her. She feels deeply, she understands profoundly, at least enough to forgive--and looks for the same in her mate. She knows her mind--and when she doesn't she knows how to eventually find her way. She stands her ground and continues, always, to belong to herself.

Underskriv

Leo