the problem with tarot
& other divination
is simply this–
why shuffle a deck of cards
to get an obscure answer
to the wrong question
when you can simply
frame your lover’s face
in your palms
tilt his chin up
until your eyes meet, ask
& read your answers there
or are you afraid
of such honesty?
***inspired by an invitation for a free “Love” tarot reading in my junk e-mail 🙂
Susan Daniels Poetry 
Wow Susan this is brilliant…you are dishing them out this week. Like this much :).
Thank you, Boomie 🙂
I think most people are afraid of such honesty. Lovely work.
{Ami}
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I think you are right, Ami!
Amen! That’s wonderful !
Thanks, Deb!
Yeah, but cards don’t talk back. . . at least not in the way you think.
Good point. Maybe they are the way to go when you don’t want a straight answer 🙂
This makes me think of the Simpsons. So many things do, but this especially.
Lisa goes to a fortune teller and the most threatening card, the one that makes the fortune teller gasp is. . . “The Happy Squirrel” and not the “Death” card.
I love that.
Hahaha! Yes, in tarot, death is not a bad card to get, usually 🙂
But squirrels are usually up to something.
they are. Now, a scary tarot card would be the ace of cats, if such a one existed.
…. OK, confession time–in my 20s, my sister talked me into learning how to read tarot. I now avoid it like the plague 🙂
Seriously though, I like this. I go back and forth on the subject of card reading. But if you get someone’s face in your hands that should tell you a lot of things! 🙂
LOL, it SHOULD…
Unless. . . . (fill in the blank)
LOL!
Through the bullshit, illumination.
One of my favourite novels involves tarot cards (Sepulchre) although I’m with you on the sentiment.
🙂 used to read them, thanks to my sis talking me into trying it out… I always used to tell my friends that wanted to know about their romantic relationships to TALK TO THEIR PARTNERS and not waste my time, or theirs 🙂
i like the idea you penned so well, of seeing the answer in the eyes of one you love…but i AM still curious about the other. ?????
Well, they can be great fun, but try to get someone to do it for you for free, for fun, a good friend, and you MIGHT enjoy it. Or not. I am still ambivalent about them now, and you know why.
I do…and I will wait for the right time and the right place…if ever. I happen to prefer the other method…just a passing curiosity.
Curiosity is good, part of the fun. Me, I prefer not to be read (part of the whole holding cards close to my chest–but we are talking tarot here, and not poker).
Riiiiight! Gambling of a different kind!
Curiosity killed the cat… Why not take what you seeing in your lover’s eyes? Why tarot?when the truth is right there in your face?
True Patricia…better to let sleeping cats lie I guess. The eyes have it…the cards can stay in the box. 🙂
Exactly, Patricia!
Yes, yes I am. Loved this.
🙂 Don’t be too afraid of it…Glad you liked!
wow….that was splendid:)
Thank you, Don!
Ignorance versus uncertainty – whixh is better? Can one read the truth in the eyes of the loved one when emotions drape the eyes? are the truths that matter always visible to the eyes? beautiful poem.
Hmmm. I believe that everything is uncertain; that is a given. Ignorance, on the other hand can often be dispelled by simply asking a question. Darn it, Noel, as always, you challenge me to go deeper still 🙂
Glad you liked.
Well said, Susan
Thanks much, Celestine.