{"sf1_id":1114278,"sf2_id":"eq55Jj9e","title":"Tying the Knot \u0026 Shame","author":"charles_they","words":844,"posted_at":"2016-12-29T03:28:10.000Z","tags":["Age Difference","Blindfold","Gay","Kiss","Kissing","Knot","Love","M/M","Male","Male/Male","Poem","Poetry","Sestina","age","embarrassment","fuck","haiku"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1114278-tying-the-knot-shame","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/eq55Jj9e","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/05/b8/05b8665a-4993-4ad0-9c1e-bb16c1c24215","description":"A sestina on tying the knot, and four somewhat kinky haikus.","content":"### Preamble\n\nA sestina is a rather complicated poem in which you have thirty-nine verses. Composed of six stanzas of six verses each, plus an envoi of three verses, the uniqueness of the sestina comes from the fact that the words used to end each verse in the first stanza are the words you use to end each verse in every other stanza. Moreover, each end word can only be used once in that stanza; to make matters even more complicated, there's a specific order to what words end which line of which verse in each stanza.\u0026nbsp;\n\nFor the first stanza, you have a word that ends each verse, words:\n\n1 2 3 4 5 6\n\nTo determine which of these words ends which verse in the second stanza, take your six ending words;\n\n1 2 3 4 5 6\n\nNow reverse the order;\n\n6 5 4 3 2 1\n\nNow pair them as follows: first-last; second-fifth; third-fourth;\n\n6-1 5-2 4-3\n\nAnd repeat for each subsequent stanza;\n\n6-1 5-2 4-3 is reversed into 3 4 2 5 1 6, which is paired into 3-6 4-1 2-5\n\n3-6 4-1 2-5 is reversed into 5 2 1 4 6 3, which is paired into 5-3 2-6 1-4\n\n5-3 2-6 1-4 is reversed into 4 1 6 2 3 5, which is paired into 4-5 1-3 6-2\n\n4-5 1-3 6-2 is reversed into 2 6 3 1 5 4, which is paired into 2-4 6-5 3-1\n\nand 2-4 6-5 3-1 is your final stanza, because:\n\n2-4 6-5 3-1 is reversed into 1 3 5 6 4 2, which is paired into 1-2 3-4 5-6, and we don't want to repeat the same order again.\n\nSo, your order is:\n\n1 2 3 4 5 6Stanza #1\n\n6 1 5 2 4 3Stanza #2\n\n3 6 4 1 2 5Stanza #3\n\n5 3 2 6 1 4Stanza #4\n\n4 5 1 3 6 2Stanza #5\n\n2 4 6 5 3 1Stanza #6\n\nFinally, you have the envoi at the end, which is a three-line stanza. The envoi follows a pattern of:\n\n2-5Envoi verse #1\u0026nbsp;\n\n4-3Envoi verse #2\n\n6-1Envoi verse #3\n\nthis means in the first verse, word #2 must be used, and word #5 must end the verse. Similarly, in the second verse, word #4 must be used, and word #3 must end the verse. In the third verse, this pattern continues, where word #6 is used in that verse, and word #1 ends the verse.\n\n* * *\n\n### Tying the Knot\n\nFew questions are like that of tying the knot;\n\nSo lovely is life before that time does come,\n\nYet suddenly it dawns like the crowing of the cock,\n\nCalling into question every touch and kiss:\n\n\"About this one, do I really give a fuck?\"\n\nIn contemplation, asunder you are thrust.\n\nRecollections of the deepness of his thrust\n\nAnd the swollen, stretching goodness of his knot\n\nSend shivers surging through you, down your spine; \"Fuck!\"\n\nYou cried out, but from within that voice did come,\n\nThat distant voice, like the graze before the kiss,\n\nNow, you listen for it, clear as a gun's cock.\n\nYour ears perked for his step, always at full cock,\n\nImpelled by desire, into his arms you're thrust,\n\nBut lust alone is not your sole drive; each kiss,\n\nEach muzzle-crashing ties your gut in a knot,\n\nAs from him, love and joy and fondness do come\n\nInto existence, and off your cares do fuck.\n\nYou and he together do not crudely fuck:\n\nYou yearn to take him to the hilt of his cock,\n\nTo feel him writhing deeply as he does come,\n\nTo match your heartbeat to every single thrust,\n\nTo be tied together by the girth of his knot,\n\nTo expose your fragility through a kiss.\n\nThis, you know, is beauty, sweeter than a kiss,\n\nAnd those who'd call him nothing other than a fuck\n\nKnow so little of the snarl that is the knot:\n\nThey preach and claim, but it's all a load of cock,\n\nAs the destruction of love is their main thrust;\n\nTo banish your beauty back whence it did come.\n\nReflection's end does come, and you give a fuck,\n\nYou'd kiss him and love him and deepthroat his cock\n\nThrough any thrust, you'll never untie this knot.\n\n* * *\n\nI enjoy the sestina as, even if the rules aren't explained, you figure out what's going on as quickly as the second stanza. It also encourages the writer to play with words that have multiple meanings, while (arguably purposefully) preventing rhyme schemes from taking hold and dominating the poem.\n\n* * *\n\n### Shame\n\nA slap on the rump /\n\nA growing fire in my face /\n\nEmbarass me, please.\n\n### Remote\n\nI try to sit still /\n\nBut I feel it within me /\n\nYou're pushing buttons.\n\n### Control\n\nA velvet blindfold /\n\nLeather tight around my neck /\n\nWrists bound behind.\n\n### Age\n\nYour greying muzzle /\n\nYou used to hide it in shame /\n\nI love you for it.\n\n* * *\n\n-Charles Michael Averin","series":{"name":"Old/Archive","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1113152-to-search-rabbit-cam.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1115408-tireless-tiger-your-darkest-hour.json"}}