The Platonic Blow
by W.H. Auden
W.H. Auden (1907-1973), above right, is regarded as one of the three major British/Irish poets of the 20th century (along with Yeats and T.S. Eliot). Auden was gay. The photo shows him in 1939 with his longtime lover, novelist Christopher Isherwood. Auden's 1948 poem The Platonic Blow is different from his usually high-toned work because it's an explicit description of a blow job. He never published it, but copies were circulated to his friends. Auden admitted authorship privately but denied it publicly, so the work is not copyright protected.
It's a long poem, but try it. You might like it.
And, as longtime readers of my blog know, I would never post porn, would I? This is literature!
It was a spring day, a day for a lay, when the airSmelled like a locker-room, a day to blow or get blown;Returning from lunch I turned my corner and thereOn a near-by stoop I saw him standing alone.I glanced as I advanced. The clean white T-shirt outlinedA forceful torso, the light-blue denims divulgedMuch. I observed the snug curves where they hugged the behind,I watched the crotch where the cloth intriguingly bulged.Our eyes met. I felt sick. My knees turned weak.I couldn’t move. I didn’t know what to say.In a blur I heard words, myself like a stranger speak“Will you come to my room?” Then a husky voice, “O.K.”I produced some beer and we talked. Like a little boyHe told me his story. Present address: next door.Half Polish, half Irish. The youngest. From Illinois.Profession: mechanic. Name: Bud. Age: twenty-four.He put down his glass and stretched his bare arms alongThe back of my sofa. The afternoon sunlight struckThe blond hairs on the wrist near my head. His chin was strong.His mouth sucky. I could hardly believe my luck.And here he was sitting beside me, legs apart.I could bear it no longer. I touched the inside of his thigh.His reply was to move closer. I trembled, my heartThumped and jumped as my fingers went to his fly.I opened a gap in the flap. I went in there.I sought for a slit in the gripper shorts that had chargeOf the basket I asked for. I came to warm flesh then to hair.I went on. I found what I hoped. I groped. It was large.He responded to my fondling in a charming, disarming way:Without a word he unbuckled his belt while I felt.And lolled back, stretching his legs. His pants fell away.Carefully drawing it out, I beheld what I held.The circumcised head was a work of mastercraftWith perfectly beveled rim of unusual weightAnd the friendliest red. Even relaxed, the shaftWas of noble dimensions with the wrinkles that indicateSingular powers of extension. For a second or two,It lay there inert, then suddenly stirred in my hand,Then paused as if frightened or doubtful of what to do.And then with a violent jerk began to expand.By soundless bounds it extended and distended, by quickGreat leaps it rose, it flushed, it rushed to its full size.Nearly nine inches long and three inches thick,A royal column, ineffably solemn and wise.I tested its length and strength with a manual squeeze.I bunched my fingers and twirled them about the knob.I stroked it from top to bottom. I got on my knees.I lowered my head. I opened my mouth for the job.But he pushed me gently away. He bent down. He unlacedHis shoes. He removed his socks. Stood up. ShedHis pants altogether. Muscles in arms and waistRippled as he whipped his T-shirt over his head.I scanned his tan, enjoyed the contrast of brownTrunk against white shorts taut around smallHips. With a dig and a wriggle he peeled them down.I tore off my clothes. He faced me, smiling. I saw all.The gorgeous organ stood stiffly and straightly outWith a slight flare upwards. At each beat of his heart it threwAn odd little nod my way. From the slot of the spoutExuded a drop of transparent viscous goo.The lair of hair was fair, the grove of a young man,A tangle of curls and whorls, luxuriant but couth.Except for a spur of golden hairs that fanTo the neat navel, the rest of the belly was smooth.Well hung, slung from the fork of the muscular legs,The firm vase of his sperm, like a bulging pear,Cradling its handsome glands, two herculean eggs,Swung as he came towards me, shameless, bare.We aligned mouths. We entwined. All act was clutch,All fact contact, the attack and the interlockOf tongues, the charms of arms. I shook at the touchOf his fresh flesh, I rocked at the shock of his cock.Straddling my legs a little I inserted his divinePerson between and closed on it tight as I could.The upright warmth of his belly lay all along mine.Nude, glued together for a minute, we stood.I stroked the lobes of his ears, the back of his headAnd the broad shoulders. I took bold hold of the compactGlobes of his bottom. We tottered. He fell on the bed.Lips parted, eyes closed, he lay there, ripe for the act.Mad to be had, to be felt and smelled. My lipsExplored the adorable masculine tits. My eyesAssessed the chest. I caressed the athletic hipsAnd the slim limbs. I approved the grooves of the thighs.I hugged, I snuggled into an armpit. I sniffedThe subtle whiff of its tuft. I lapped up the tasteOf its hot hollow. My fingers began to driftOn a trek of inspection, a leisurely tour of the waist.Downward in narrowing circles they playfully strayed.Encroached on his privates like poachers, approached the prick,But teasingly swerved, retreated from meeting. It betrayedIts pleading need by a pretty imploring kick.“Shall I rim you?” I whispered. He shifted his limbs in assent.Turned on his side and opened his legs, let me passTo the dark parts behind. I kissed as I wentThe great thick cord that ran back from his balls to his arse.Prying the buttocks aside, I nosed my way inDown the shaggy slopes. I came to the puckered goal.It was quick to my licking. He pressed his crotch to my chin.His thighs squirmed as my tongue wormed in his hole.His sensations yearned for consummation. He untuckedHis legs and lay panting, hot as a teen-age boy.Naked, enlarged, charged, aching to get sucked,Clawing the sheet, all his pores open to joy.I inspected his erection. I surveyed his parts with a stareFrom scrotum level. Sighting along the undersideOf his cock, I looked through the forest of pubic hairTo the range of the chest beyond rising lofty and wide.I admired the texture, the delicate wrinkles and the neatSutures of the capacious bag. I adored the graceOf the male genitalia. I raised the delicious meatUp to my mouth, brought the face of its hard-on to my face.Slipping my lips round the Byzantine dome of the head,With the tip of my tongue I caressed the sensitive groove.He thrilled to the trill. “That’s lovely!” he hoarsely said.“Go on! Go on!” Very slowly I started to move.Gently, intently, I slid to the massive baseOf his tower of power, paused there a moment downIn the warm moist thicket, then began to retraceInch by inch the smooth way to the throbbing crown.Indwelling excitements swelled at delights to comeAs I descended and ascended those thick distended walls.I grasped his root between left forefinger and thumbAnd with my right hand tickled his heavy voluminous balls.I plunged with a rhythmical lunge steady and slow,And at every stroke made a corkscrew roll with my tongue.His soul reeled in the feeling. He whimpered “Oh!”As I tongued and squeezed and rolled and tickled and swung.Then I pressed on the spot where the groin is joined to the cock,Slipped a finger into his arse and massaged him from inside.The secret sluices of his juices began to unlock.He melted into what he felt. “O Jesus!” he cried.Waves of immeasurable pleasures mounted his member in quickSpasms. I lay still in the notch of his crotch inhaling his sweat.His ring convulsed round my finger. Into me, rich and thick,His hot spunk spouted in gouts, spurted in jet after jet.
10 comments:
Spectacular! I had not read that before. Frankly, I'm more than a little hard right now... ha.
I'd never seen that. What a grand description!
Way too long for me, but the spot-reads were very hot.
Loved it very much
A succulent and passionate description of the perfect blow job!
I'm surprised to read that Auden was Isherwood long time lover as Isherwood did have a very long love mate with Don, a young artist in LA. I have the DVD of «Don & Chris» which is a tribute to Isherwood from Don who is interviewed in this movie.
Did you see the movie «Christopher and his Kind» about the WWII life of Isherwood in Germany?
@JiEL - I saw "Chris & Don" also, and had the same thought as you. Oh well, I guess the idea of 2 or more lovers -- maybe in an open relationship kind of way -- is nothing new.
What I like about their love story is that Don the young man fell in love with a mature man which story I'd like to have.
But I did fall in love with a very bright 34yo man when I was 58yo in 2009.
He lived with me for 3 years but even if he was my dream man, he cheated on me with a even older man and I discovered he was liing for many other things.
Now I'm not sure I can trust another man to be a respectful and faithful lover again.
JIEL, I may have misspoken. apparently Auden and Isherwood were lovers on and off from 1927 to 1939, and Isherwood and Don Bachardy were lovers on and off from 1953 to 1986.
I know for having seen Isherwood story. But Love was the main path here for him and he was lucky to live it accross all those hard times even in USA.
Back them before WWII homosexuality was accepted in Germany more than in England where he was born.
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