Two pools with depth of warmth and hopeLashes like butterflies seeking sweet nectar
Quivering trembling petals of red rose
Waiting to speak but for her solitude
A restless creeper slender swayed by the breeze
Waiting for the tree trunk instead to caress her
Two wisps of nimbus raised in doting anxiety
Amidst the snowy peaked forehead
Permitting only a chaste vermillion sun
Waiting from the spray of morn
Till the embers of the day die away
A duo of dew drops drips from her dainty cheeks
She rises like a gale, flies away like a swallow in eve
Her silken robes ripple the air like the river
Clouds of faith shed raindrops pattering to stop never
Her anklets jingle as if in orchestration
Crickets mourn her consternation
She gets shrouded in a deathly dark knight’s brocade
To return, yet again with the morning spray
For an endless fruitless wait
Modern sexual connotations (from Wikiepedia)
ReplyDeleteDue to the depiction of the mythological nymphs as females who mate with men or women at their own volition and are completely outside male control, the term is often used for women who are perceived as behaving similarly.
(For example, the title of the Perry Mason detective novel "The Case of the Negligent Nymph" (1956), by Erle Stanley Gardner, is derived from this meaning of the word).
The term "Nymphomania" was created by modern psychology as referring to a "desire to engage in human sexual behavior at a level high enough to be considered clinically significant", "Nymphomaniac" being the person suffering from such a disorder. Due to widespread use of the term among lay persons (often shortened to "nympho") and stereotypes attached, professionals nowadays prefer the term "Hypersexuality" which can refer to males and females alike.
The word "nymphet" is used to identify a sexually precocious girl. The term was made famous in the novel "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov. The main character, Humbert Humbert, uses the term countless times and usually in reference to the title character.