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Seduced By Seduction

Seduction, sly mistress that she isSlow, sensuous, serious bizSlides up to you, whispers in your earSensual temptations to allay your fears I can’t wait for her to whisper to meSimple words for simpler pleasuresSecret acts of forbidden treasureShe’s a seductress, my favorite missSomeone I need, can’t live without this I admit I’m addicted to herSeducedContinue reading “Seduced By Seduction”

Dig Deep

Engrave your name hereUpon my heart’s broken tearsSpilled blood a tattooWhisper your love dearKeep your lips on mine tonightPoison in my veinsNails on a chalkboardYour moans, tear through my eardrums Your sighs sharp daggersLhOaVtEe digs deep A Dverse prompt. Write a quadrille with the word engrave. Hope you enjoy!

Hoot Goes the Owl

Ah the moonlight shines downHear the hoot of the owlA lovely sound within the nightTo some it does give frightNot to me I am quite safeTo a mouse fright should causeFor it’s life could soon be a loss A dVerse prompt: Give a hoot about the rules and write us a poem of exactly 44Continue reading “Hoot Goes the Owl”

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”

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”

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”

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”