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Tilting Away & Towards The Sun

I look outside my windowSnow falls downLike the down feathers of the fleeing geese gone for winterCold bites through me as I turn away from the sunThe dance remains the same from millenia to milleniaAs we dance through the cosmos revolving one around the otherI circle you yet it is coldest when I am closer.IContinue reading “Tilting Away & Towards The Sun”

Then Everything Changed

“Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed …”AirIt was always thereI breathed it inEven to the depths of the oceanIt filled my lungsIn my darkest despairAlways thereFor 100 years or moreI needed nothing moreThe change in me was like water flowing from the sea.The river flowedContinue reading “Then Everything Changed”

From The Dirt

Got here from the dirtYou mean the mud?No, mud had waterWe had none.Salt of the earthCause our fields were saltedKilling crops, growing on nothin’.Hard packed soilMade into clayBuilding walls to make us stay.Going down by the river Jordan?Nah, we keep our feet in the soilTouching grassCause we working off our assReach up to the skyKissContinue reading “From The Dirt”

Shades

Shades Black and whiteWhy hast thou forsaken me? No colorThe rainbow does not fill the page All the discourse seems black and whiteWhere are the shades? Nuance paints within the greysStark lines No curves or bendsInorganic ArtificialNot like the tides or the waves It makes me sadLike Jesus within the garden He weptShadesBlack and whiteNoContinue reading “Shades”

Consummation Consumption Compulsion

Like lust I want to consume your bodyA junkie for the taste of your skinFill my mouth, my senses overwhelm I want you like a drowning man wants airI wake, not from a dream of you,But to manifest my dreams with you upon reality.I will eat you, messily, greedily, completely Wiping your juice from myContinue reading “Consummation Consumption Compulsion”

Comic Book Sans

Zing! Bang! Boom! Do that thing you do. That supercalifragilistic, bombastic, pop ‘em in the lip shtick. Batguy or superwhirl, spiderfan or wander female I marvel at your decency Better you, couldn’t be me. With power comes responsibility All it takes is one day. A dVerse Quadrille with zing. The prompt: Just pen us aContinue reading “Comic Book Sans”

My One Desired

The hint of her arousal sets my desire aflameI can taste her already on my lipsMy mouth waters at the thought of her dampDripping slowly, drop and drip upon my tongueLicking up, around, once again and downGather juices to swallow and become drunk.Let me in my drunken state become one with herOur bodies swaying backContinue reading “My One Desired”

A Hint of Longing

The hint of jasmine a memory of youRolling through my sensesThunder after the rainVanilla wafts with the breezeCombined make melancholy of memoriesBetrayed by scents, my sense left, since you leftA hint of longing I lay upon your doorstep A Quadrille prompt from dVerse. Write a 44 word poem with the word hint in it. IContinue reading “A Hint of Longing”

I Know Not But You

I know not the stars for they hang too high within the sky,Yet I know your eyesThe depths of the ocean I have not traversedYet I feel depth of my longing for youThe heat of July’s dessert’s sun has not burned itself upon my skinBut I’ve felt the heat between us dance upon my bodyIContinue reading “I Know Not But You”

Finding The Face of God

The blazing sun stood in the sky like a sentinel; cold unfeeling, waiting for those under its gaze to die. “Why are we out in this heat?” whined Charley. “We’re getting treasure,” replied Justin. I shook my head. Charley loved to wine and dine the old ladies. That he would sweet talk them out ofContinue reading “Finding The Face of God”