Post | 05/15/2008 4:57 pm
First Kiss

Do you remember your
very first kiss or has
it faded …
First Kiss
I ran into my first love on the streets of
N.Y.C.
Sweet love from decades
Ago.
Forty years.
He was elderly – "Sheila," he said
"Oh my God."
He was my very first tongue kiss
My rubber band braces snapped
And almost blinded him
During spin-the-bottle in –
Elaine Zeckendorf’s mothy closet
(Does anyone use mothballs anymore?)
Memory so clear
Forty years ago
A moment
And there he was
Forty years in snap crackle
And here he was
And we exchanged
Niceties
Dr. Lawyer Indian Chief me – him
Solomon Grundy born on Monday
Wednesday’s child is full of woe
And then gone
down the cement block
I turned back to catch the
time
He was gone
My heart pounding hard a blueprint
And I knew
I had been there
Young
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57 Reader Comments (so far…)
I was seven (!) and he took me to the playground, pushed me on the swings, SANG to me! and kissed me. He took me to the ice cream parlor and I knew I would love him forever. “Forever” lasted until I was 10.
I was 10. We were at a kids barn dance and party. I think it was someone’s birthday. His name was Nicky Pekelsma and I adored him. I had my first ever dance with him. We danced to Twilight Time and he gave me a kiss afterwards. Just a kid’s kiss…a nice one to remember.
I think my first kiss was around age 13, however I do not remember who. Fortunately, I have had many kisses that were wonderful and meaningful.
Great poem! Mine was at 14. Still remember Jane’s sweet soft lips. Probably for the best we don’t meet again now in our late 60s.
My first kiss was across the street from PS 96 on the rocks in the vacant lot when I was in 2nd grade. Now in 5th and 6th grades the children are having oral sex. I don’t know what is wrong with all you women and especially the sponsors of wowowow unless of course you are not reading any of our comments. People like Liz Smith, Whoopi, Candace who has a daughter,Marlo who is involved with St. Judes, Joan who cares about children and Peggy who is conservative…
There is a big health problem affecting adolescents and teenagers and especially in the coming weeks during prom season. Oral sex has become a kiss goodnight and it is dangerous to the health of young girls and boys and everyone including the big shots sponsoring wowowow are not saying anything and you folks have the mass media and forums to get the message out. Don’t you women sponsors care about the health of young girls? Forget about me and listen to Dr. Healy. Are the sponsors of wowowow not concerned about the health of young girls or just out of it.
Quoting Dr. Bernadine Healy from an article she wrote in U.S. News & World Report February 19, 2008 : “There’s an argument out there that oral sex is not sex….To some young people , oral sex preserves virginity – technically speaking – and allows for what is perceived as risk-free sexual intimacy. From a medical perspective, however, this is sex – and generally, as practiced, it’s unsafe. People seem clueless that sexually transmitted diseases such as herpes, gonorrhea, chlamydia, and human papillomavirus [and also syphilis] can take hold in parts of the oral cavity during sex with infected partners and that the oral contact can infect the genitals, too….Granted, the major risk for STDs comes with vaginal sex, but the relative ease and growing frequency of oral sex among those engaging in casual “hookups” is a virtual epidemic in the making. Providing our young people with graphic medical information and stern parental and medical guidance is long overdue. ” This information has not been provided to young people and should be provided immediately.
Brad - what makes you think that our founders or the women on this website are not aware of this problem. My granddaughter was 16 (five years ago) when she told me about this. It is something that has been and is being discussed by most informed women with teenagers. The fact is, most of the women on this website are not daily involved with teenagers any longer. I am sure that most of us do talk to our granddaughters or any young woman that comes to us for advice. This information is getting out, tv ads, brochures, lectures - it sounds to me like it is something YOU have just discovered so I understand your shock. But please don’t blame the founders of a website dedicated to women over 40 for not making this a daily issue.
It may become a daily issue until the media gives teenagers a loud and clear warning as suggested by Dr. Healy. I would think that your daughter is more informed than the 50+% of the teenage girls having oral sex unprotected and not knowing the health risks. If the women who add their famous names to this web site are concerned about other women and teenage girls then you would think they would get this out to the media and as Dr. Healy says get the message out to young women because oral sex and teenagers is at a crisis stage. This is a national health issue affecting young girls. I;m trying to do something that the meida is ignoring and creates great health risks to women. Sorry to throw some reality into your fun.
Gee thanks Brad! thought this was gonna be a fun little post but ,THANX A HEAP DUDE!! I think I’ll run right up and wake ny 13 y/o and wash her mouth out with astringent or something. Perhaps I’ll drag her butt down and insist she read your illustrative message as well! Oh WOW maybe I’ll excoriate the founders of this open forum for the earthquake in China too while I’m at it! I’m feeling so energised now I’ve forgottenall about kissing! Oh except you can ……. nevermind!!
You should tell your 13 year when she wakes up. If you don’t think I am correct then argue with Dr. Healy and the founders of this web site can fight with her also. Some people have forums open to them to do good and the founders of this web site have that opportunity and can use it in accord with what Dr. Healy is saying. or else they can continue with all this nice dribble…
Brad,
Life lived fully has room for many facets at once. Women(and men too although I can only speak from where I sit) can be wistfully dreaming of a fond memory and yet still aware of the statistics linked to same topic from an entirely different perspective.(Wow was not speaking of orgasms, incest, wonderful honeymoon vacation destinations, girls forced into porstitution, silly dating upsets, or any number of topics avaialble within tangents one might travel to from the thoughts of a first kiss…….) This applies to the political arena, education, rearing children, marriage,religion, friends, professional work….a person can see one facet that is pleasant like a glistening bubble and know there are many other facets, many being negative aspects too.
Yes, Brad, there is room for a gentle look back and still knowing that the kiss given today is real. Your topic of oral sex might be a future topic, but lighten up. The feminine part of humans keep in touch with one’s own inner joys and pleasant memories. Maybe a “suggested topic icon” on this site would help folks have a place to vent some thoughts without intruding on these lovely posts.
Yes, I remember a wonderfully happy, long first kiss……………..smiled for hours afterward.
Perhaps you can lighten up when children are hurting themselves and nobody is telling them they are endangering themselves - I cannot. The government has known this for about 9 years and hasn’t gotten the message to the children. The media has known about the danger, NOW has known about the danger and women politicians know and they all have done zip, zero. When people are allowing children to harm themselves I will not lighten up until all these big shots give them the message. What are their excuses?
First kiss: I was 12, David was 11, we were classmates. I didn’t imagine that lips touching would feel any different from lips on cheeck, but wow. I googled him last year, unsuccessfully.
First Kiss: I was in 4th grade, we climbed to the top of a metal jungle gym, he kissed me, kids were watching and we got in trouble. I then found out his uncle let him chew snuff and I never kissed him again!
A late bloomer as my first kiss was at 16. I get to relive it every day as I am married to that man for 31 years. Still makes my stomach flip-flop.
I remember going to a party in 7th grade and when my dad picked me up afterwards he asked how I liked the party. I told him it was awful “kids were kissing” YUK. He smiled and now I know why.
My first kiss was at 13 and 8th grade. No big deal, but he was my first official boyfriend. It was a month before graduation and he went on to a different highschool. I didn’t see him for years and then I ran into him one day at College. We said hello and talked a little, he seemed shy. Sweet memory.