My First Kiss

[RonPrice]

MY FIRST KISS

As the millennium turned the corner in 2001 I launched myself onto a host of websites. Three years later in 2004 I had in my files information about literally hundreds of these sites. Many of them involved posting my prose-poetry. Some of them involved me in making assessments of the poetry of others. Occasionally in teaching youth and adults in the years 1968 to 2004 I had to assess, to comment on, a student’s poem. But just as my career of teaching and assessing student work ended in late April of 2004, I new field opened on the Internet where the assessment of someone’s poem was involved. One such poem was called “My First Kiss.” The seminal idea for the poem which follows comes from reading that poem by a Tom Friel(May 6, 2004) at the site called Wild Poetry Forum.-Ron Price, Pioneering Pver Four Epochs, May 26, 2004.

It came so fast from her:
juicy, warm, unexpected,
filled me to overflowing,
in the evening I recall now
nearly fifty years ago,
just when I’d come across
an utopian ideology with
the future in its bones,1
little did I know in the midst
of what seemed to me just
simple-sweet reasonableness.

The girl and the kisses
were soon gone:
I never kissed Karen again,
but the ideology remained,
a cultural base for a globe,
a base for a web:
of consciousness,
of imagination---
in the midst of a babel
of voices in the decades
as the crisis of western society
deepened and its dark heart,
the darkest before the dawn
in this age of transition.

Kisses have been for me
much more work than I
ever imagined they’d be.
As the years went on
I kept trying to make it!
But the work was more
than anyone had ever told me.
In that ideological home, too,
it was often more than I could bear.

In ’57 the first man orbited the earth;
in ’62 the first American and I began
to pioneer that new ideology
from one end of the earth to the other.

1Daniel Bell, the End of Ideology, 1960.

Ron Price
May 26 2004

[King Zarathu]

what the ****?

[Steve2004]

err...uhm...

[JasonRebel17]

what the ****?

same thing he said "What The ****!!!??"
why dont u just make that more short, i dont want to learn no damn history lesson....

[zas]

why would anyone want to kiss you, u freak :S

[RonPrice]

It is difficult to express a response to these responses. All I can say is I hope you all have a good Christmas in 6 days time. See ya! -Ron

[Fishy]

Give the guy a break. He's a poet, and maybe eccentric some.

[Joe_Watson]

Damn, why can't anyone appreciate the effort he put into writing that poem?
Why do you have to be so hostile towards a newcomer?
Is it because you can't compete that you feel you must denigrate his work? Just think about that.
You should be ashamed, but you are probably too shallow to feel shame.

Also, what Fishy said: Give the guy a break.
He just wanted to share his work with us and it's a damned shame that all you did was put him down.
Seriously, what's wrong with you?

[sfalexi]

I have no problem with what he wrote either.

[Carlos_Casas]

I had my first kiss in DisneyLand !!! it was not that magical though. She was Alshonna Milton n I leaned her face to mine and Voila!! my first kiss

[Fawn]

I really liked that poem!
Ron did not deserve such comments.
Your sweet hun, and the rest of the morons can go **** themselves.

[OpticalIllusion]

I agree. It was very sweet and you don't deserve those coments. I only wish I had some talent for poetry... and I really should since I'm a song writer!

[Junket]

I didn't read it, but I don't think anybody who writes poetry should worry about what others think of it, poetry is beyond criticism.

[tooxshort]

post that in the poems section ... that way people cant hate cuz its meant to be there and they probably have no place there anyhow ...

you can tell who the kids are ...

[Royston]

hmm... poetry
wish i could do 1 n express it in a romantic way to my love 1