In these quiet places (softly sensual)

Free Verse (lines of poetry written in a poetic voice, with no particular structure, no rhymes, that flows, with line-breaks in smooth and comfortable places)

In these quiet places …

Come, let me pull you gently into our quietness,

where wonder has etched the loveliness of

your softly alluring "take me" eyes

permanently into my hopeful,

azure blues,

where the dawns rise silently ~ gently

to mist our early skies with gold

before surrendering...

on unto the day.

Let us entwine our ever-willing, hungry fingers

in quiet, reverent solitude...

to stroll through boundless amber fields,

where wild stalks of wheat in training

learn to weather life's gloriously

gentled breath of creation,

waving as one together

at all awe-struck

passers-by.

Let me know you in your quiet stillness,

as I have known you like soft waves

fondling the excited shore, while

You are siren, I am sailor...

where the all of us is

~ Eternity.

Let me love you in your calm moments,

that I may know it is me your loins

open in aching hunger for, and

it is for me your eyes close

when your sighs breathe

and flow softly down

o'er me from your

lusty throat.

Then, in the solitude of this time, Our time...

embraced in these hushed surroundings,

let our souls meld into matrimony,

with no clergy or witnesses,

....and....

in these quiet places, let me be

the sole reason your arms,

your moist lips, and

your world

exists.

Richard W. Jenkins

©2016

1st PLACE

Blue Rose Café's

Free Verse Romance Contest

Author's Note

Photograph, from Wikimedia Commons.

This may be a bit too long for some — it is my shamelessly-exuberant pen I blame it on … LOL!

Constructive critique is always welcome. : )

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

Soft, gentle and perfect words my friend.
"in these quiet places, let me be
the sole reason your arms,
your moist lips, and
your world
exists."
A amazing poem. I had to read again. Thank you Richard for sharing the amazing poetry.
Coyote

[Richard🖌]

Thank you,John! : )
Ever the gentleman, you always elect something meaningful and pertinent from a writer's efforts to let them know you appreciate and relate with them in some meaningful way.

This is reward of a truly appreciated kind, My Fine Friend … bless you with many smiles! ⁓ Richard

[Coyote Poetry]

You are welcome my friend.

[Einstein Noodle]

an invitation to voyeur a little ;) very soft romance .. funny that in contrast a past love of mine in direct contrast was a fiery, Irish, red head; that warned me from the start :) and the 4 yrs of raging storm and passions ended, of course, painfully ...tho many miles apart these days we remain friends. i have to chuckle when you say free form as you couldn't help yourself to mold the verses most precisely ;) its a poem to love love by
E.

[Richard🖌]

Hi, Gene! : )
You know how very much your words of praise and appreciation mean to me, and how thrilled I always am to receive a bit of your personal experiences.

Bless you and thank you, my very thoughtful and gracious Friend! ⁓ Richard

[Einstein Noodle]

same to you Richard ..best wishes :)

[horizon]

It is really lovely...I liked the line let us entwine our ever-willing hungry fingers...and I also loved the picture you've selected

[Richard🖌]

Hi, Sweet Lady-Poet! : )
Your words of praise and love are as the lovely, tender petals of an opening Lotus to the softness allure of moonlight ⁓ how can one help but enjoy them in their caressing depth?

I smile with grateful thanks, warmed by poetic hugs! ⁓ Richard

[horizon]

it is always my pleasure to read your writings sir

[Richard🖌]

I humbly bow⁓*

[Kathryn Smith]

Simply I just have one word to say: Beautiful.

[Richard🖌]

Well, Dear Kathryn,
That really says a lot … thank you ever-so warmly! ⁓ Richard : )

[ReedWrite]

I love all forms of creative writing and poetry...but every once in awhile you read something that is more than mere words on paper, following a predetermined pattern. Sometimes the words touch more than your mind...they are processed on a deeper, more instinctual level. Reading this is like taking a clean, crisp breath of frosty winter morning air after the first snowfall, or reclining on a lounge enjoying the cool breeze that kisses sun-warmed skin. It's a sigh of pleasure. Thank you for sharing.

[Richard🖌]

The expressed essence of your sensations make me feel them as though they are my own … what is such allure that captivates and sweeps one into your moment?
I surely do not know, except to say it does, that I enjoy it in a very appealing way.
Your words in review please me more than the poem. : )

Thank you, Lovely Poetess, for making my efforts feel so appreciated and worthwhile … hugs to you! ⁓ Richard

[ReedWrite]

Your efforts are indeed appreciated. Hugs to you, as well. - Pam

[Richard🖌]

Pam!
I've known a few, butIi'd be willing to wager none more enthralling or impressively real. ; )

[ReedWrite]

LOL...of course not!

[1VJ]

Oh I love this, it's got just enough kick for a wee tremble. :)

Apparently, 'ever-willing, hungry fingers' was behind this steamy rendezvous. Excellent.

[Richard🖌]

Grin!
Paloma, you sure caught me dead to rights in this one … no use squirming to get out of it, because you've made it such a sweet pleasure. ; )

Thank you warmly, Dear Poetess! ⁓ Richard

[J. J. Nightingale]

Wow, wishing I had ever had aching loins that opened in hunger....lol..
Hummm.. a bit XX Rated for my taste..
But well written and lovely ...................

Hot/Lovely..

Jazzy

[Richard🖌]

Hi, Dear Lady Jasmine!

I so love it when you review for me, you're such a true delight … and, I feel quite sure you have*
Oh, I dunno, you seem to have found a certain redeeming warmth in this one. ; )

BTW: Your profile pic is sheer loveliness in itself — just sayin'.
Thank you for your deeelightful review, Lovely Poetess … happy hugs to you! ⁓ Richard

[J. J. Nightingale]

Wink Wink .... I still feel the warmth of this one...lol.. .. Thanks for the kind comments about me pic..lol .... Peace Out .....................♥

[Richard🖌]

Heartbeats to you …

[J. J. Nightingale]

Came back to read again.........................

[Richard🖌]

You so deeply honor me, Dear Jasmine.

[J. J. Nightingale]

AWW....................♥

[Marianne Rose]

Never too long for me, as I tend to shrink from poetry too short to immerse myself in before it's over. This is a luscious piece, filled with sensuality, as you say, some of it making me blush because it reads as if to me the reader rather than about you and another. I feel a little vulnerable, a little swept into its rhythms and hues. If I can imagine my husband reading it to me, I am better off; if I can imagine us on a blanket, in a field, soft spring day, with him holding a book open to your poetry, a prelude to closing it gently at the end and leaning in to kiss me . . . Well, then I feel I am not eavesdropping on another's intimate moment, but taking it as my own. I cannot critique the form and words/phrases as written- all exceptionally expressed. It is only the intimacy itself that I can comment on- because I am in the picture somehow as I read it, being pulled into the trance, and stepping away, "but I'm married" I say. You set the scene so beautifully, I could not remain outside of it, unless I conjured my husband's voice in your melodious tones. Just a swooning woman's perspective, I guess.

[Richard🖌]

Such a beautifully, wondrously, heavenly, enthralling, and "swooning woman's perspective" you've painted, Dear Rose … you make me feel warmed, lured, stirred, and swooned, too; yet, I've no one else to "conjure"! ; )
I enjoy how we both seem to "immerse" ourselves ever-so nicely in each others' poetry and comments, very much.

Warmest hugs for sharing you,your, thoughts, feelings, and emotions … what more could one ask, eh? ⁓ Richard ; )

[alan peter kelly]

Phenomenal in romanticism...such lush and soft hewn imagery that evoked not just the juices in my inspiritory glands but warmed cockles of a heart dulled by relentless modern circumstance yet instantaneously forgotten once eyes mind soul stepped upon this, your gorgeously enlightened land...

[Richard🖌]

Hi, Alan!
I must have dozed-off and missed your wonderfully expressive and inspiring review in words of expressed appreciation, praise, and gratifying commentary in how this piece served you well.

What more coulda hopeful, grateful bard ask for? Many thanks and blessings, Dear Poet! ⁓ Richard