Nostalgia

Hostility permeates thick between lips

Soft and smoothing over strained words.

Ablaze upon the dogs buried in your chest,

Stitched into the fissures of my wrist,

Stark realities of our consumption's

Feed rabid on my surreptitious sentiments.

Heat radiates from callused hands

Course and constant across marked bone.

Burning within the power of your gaze,

Fixed around the anchors of my thighs,

Bare particularities of our consummation

Feast on our covert intimacies.

Passion stirs dense between breaths

Labored and pulsing through loose cheeks

Pressure below the balance of your stance,

Urgency hemmed into the tip of my tongue,

Splayed absurdities of our correspondences

Swallow second thoughts on our affairs

Power resonates from mesmerizing eyes

Softening timid, crisp creases of mine

Reviews

[barleygirl]

I love this poem & I love your style of writing sensual stuff. Many times, the use of complex words can be a buzz-kill becuz it takes a write like this into the cerebral realm, whereas I prefer to stick to more sensory-based observations. Put bluntly, big words make us think & thinking pulls us out of feeling mode. That being said, this is the best & most seductive use of complex language & layered phraseology that I've ever seen mainly becuz you are so particular about choosing sound-based words that flow like a sensual feast. Many "s" and "c" sounds which contrast between hard & soft, very sensually. Usually a phrase like this "particularities of our consummation" would be a tongue-twisting interruption to the flow, but you've picked your long complex words in such a way that the sounds are easy to get our tongues around (in more ways than one!) Fondly, Margie

[Sarah Jane]

Your reviews are generous! I typically write without much thought at all. I am an emotional writer and write my best when I am experiencing some overwhelming emotion. I focus on capturing that emotion with my delivery and fluidity of the words within. I am grateful of your appriciation!

[barleygirl]

I am guilty of overworking my poems & I appreciate those who can bypass the wordcrafting distraction & dig deeper into the way a thing feels.

[Franky]

Super intense! I usually read your stuff two or three times since it's so rich. I like this one. Some how this is a turn on.....not sure if that was your intention? Lol

[Sarah Jane]

My intention was to capture intimacy but I acknowledge the arousal in this piece. Glad you liked it!