Do you like pooner poetry? Any examples you know?

[tantalizeme]

The "Poet's Corner" section of the April 2014 SUBIC EXPRESS contains the following gem:

The Winds of Change

You're so young and I'm so old
Still I'm longing for romance
But I'll understand if I am told
With you I stand no chance

Oh! You are a silly old man
I guess I am quite young
But my dear, it's you I want
For you are quite well hung.

One hour later still in bed
She moaned, "You're sweet as honey"
Then she smiled and coyly said
May I have some money

If you're short it's still okay
Just give to me your plastic
I'll go and cash it right away
That will *be fantastic.

What!!! No plastic and no cash
Then you're using me for free
Get lost you ancient piece of trash
You're no *damn use to me.*

** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *--Mac

 

[tantalizeme]

Why so little pooner poetry?

I always appreciate pooners who write with flair about their authentic experience.

Without the example of brothers like Hatrick, Thommo or Martin spurring me on, I'd never have taken this hobby to adventurous lengths.

There're mountains of pooning reviews, and even the occasional pooner diary or pooner memoir--but I've only come across a smattering of pooner poetry, either freestyle or rhymed.

I recall, brother ruinedheart has recently poured his heart out poetically. A few pooners--more gifted than myself-- have actually couched reviews in verse, as did brother snowmonger a few years back (before he sadly got banned).

A few wonderful ladies, too, have treated us to fine samplings of "escort poetry."

Isn't it a little surprising that there isn't any greater poetic outpouring among pooners--given that a good session can make one's heart sing and one's spirit wax lyrical?

 

[WingedHorse]

There is a pooner named Tantalizeme
Who likes to listen to poetry

He visits many young girls
Asian ones, who usually have no curls

He finds local girls pricey
So he likes to go other countries, which is a bit dicey

He travels the world in search of cheap thrills
Perhaps he would like it better if there were Asian girl mills?

He has professed a fetish if the girl will smoke
And I hope he takes this little ditty as a joke.


WH

 

[tantalizeme]

Thanks, brother WingedHorse.

Never imagined I'd be worthy of becoming the subject of a poem. You've definitely nailed my essential being in five rhymed couplets.

If you write your next review in verse form too, that would please this poetry buff even more.

Oceanic, you're a true kindred spirit. Good to be reminded that Chaucer, Herrick, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the great Chinese poet Li Bai wrote about "ladies of easy virtue" in a positive vein.

I love Bukowski's talent and courage to serve up uncompromisingly candid realism--too bad he allowed booze to destroy him.

As for sex-celebrating poetry, I used to enjoy Erica Jong.

I also read quite a bit of Evelyn Lau, a prize-winning Vancouver poet whose "Diary of a Runaway" was made into a movie. As an ex-teenage sex worker, a lot of her sex-obsessed writing is very dark and often dripping with contempt for pooners.

I don't hold this against her--we all have our different experiences and a right to freely express them.

 

[tantalizeme]

What's the meaning of Mac's poem?

Interpreting the poem "The Winds of Change"

Since none of my poetry-crazed fellow pooners commented on Mac's moving lament, let me give my humble perspective on its meaning.

Just like Shakespeare's sonnets, the message of Mac's poem can be interpreted at a number of levels.

1. The literal level: This poem tells the story of crossed expectations. It probably grew out of an elderly man's bitterness when it became clear that his young lover's flatteries and ministrations weren't motivated by romantic emotions but only the desire to extract cash.

2. The superficial universal level: Perhaps this poem is meant to convey the conventional message that a woman in a May-November relationship must have economic motives, and only a fool would believe otherwise.*

3. The deeper universal level: No doubt, this poem is about the clash of age differences--but it also alludes to the challenge of bringing male and female sexuality into alignment more generally.*

Male-female sexual harmony*usually requires at least a bit of economic incentive for women and, all too often, the promise of monogamous commitment (although, to be sure, some women prefer what Erica Jong calls "the zipless fuck.")

But *once a woman has her man's long-term commitment--complete with high exit costs--she tends to take his sharing of resources for granted and will rarely be motivated to be sexual in adventurous ways that require courage and effort.

*The sooner a man makes his peace with this deep evolutionary fact, the happier his sex life will become,*and the more honestly he can admit to himself that pooning may be his best bet to experience passion.*

That's the message I see in Mac's poem--or perhaps project into it?

The Winds of Change

You're so young and I'm so old
Still I'm longing for romance
But I'll understand if I am told
With you I stand no chance

Oh! You are a silly old man
I guess I am quite young
But my dear, it's you I want
For you are quite well hung.

One hour later still in bed
She moaned, "You're sweet as honey"
Then she smiled and coyly said
May I have some money

If you're short it's still okay
Just give to me your plastic
I'll go and cash it right away
That will *be fantastic.

What!!! No plastic and no cash
Then you're using me for free
Get lost you ancient piece of trash
You're no *damn use to me.*

** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *--Mac

 

[WingedHorse]

Male-female sexual harmony*usually requires at least a bit of economic incentive for women and, all too often, the promise of monogamous commitment (although, to be sure, some women prefer what Erica Jong calls "the zipless fuck.")

But *once a woman has her man's long-term commitment--complete with high exit costs--she tends to take his sharing of resources for granted and will rarely be motivated to be sexual in adventurous ways that require courage and effort.



Tant, I think "project into it" is more apt.

You clearly have a very pessimistic view about male/female relationships. Not all relationships require economic incentive for the woman, nor do such relationships fall apart if that economic incentive is taken away.

Now, if you are an older man looking for a much younger woman, which is what the poem is about, then I do not disagree with you. As an older man your appeal to the younger woman is stability, power and money. Take those away and you lose your appeal. Similarly, the appeal to you of the younger woman is her youthful looks and the thought of having sex with this beautiful girl. If she is not youthful and beautiful than her appeal to you is gone. It works both ways and you ("you" being an older man looking for a younger woman to have sex with) cannot complain that your appeal to her is money, as her appeal to you is youth and beauty.

So I agree with you on that level but say that in many relationships, if not most of them, where the ages between the married couples are closer, the appeal to each other, and to address your specific point, the appeal to the woman, is not driven by economics.

If you are someone that wants to chase after young woman for sex, go for it (who am I to say otherwise - so do I). Money will always be your appeal. If this sums up your relationships, I understand why you have the view you do.

If you want a true relationship with someone who has something more for you than youth and beauty, than you will probably find someone that is not driven by economics. As I suspect you are not looking for that, your view will likely always be a pessimistic one, as that is the world you have put yourself in. I am not saying this to be critical - if you are happy in that world, enjoy it. However, you may want to acknowledge that people who are not in that "older man/young woman sex world" are not subjected to the same relationship motivations.


WH