The Glazed Elixir Of A French Kiss

The spirited light, solar-like wind,

breath with its passion, the sun’s copious

erotic venom.

 

I speak of everything and all things

without caution: this noise inside my head,

layers of high-pitched harmonics,

 

the compressed hours between

birth and death, the heart’s heat

ascending and descending,

 

the end always beginning and again

your Gothic eyes. I have been here

and there, a prodigal hawk

 

with the flavor of blood-kisses hovering

like steam or mist or a weapon stirring

the body’s carbonic magnetic motion.

 

Never the sky always the silence disclosing

the stillness in death’s fantasy;life and death,

love and loss, a fatalistic dream-reel

 

as if two mirrors facing each other reflecting

a vacant image. I remember a faint trail

of finger prints. My impatient pulse

 

raced into yours: deserted passions,

like roses, each one dies the same way

our emotions mumbled

 

through love and into the glazed elixir

of a French kiss: In my arms you had fallen asleep

not knowing I had left.

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from my second book: The Second Coming

(Stillpoint Books)

©dah / dahlusion / Stillpoint, 2012 all rights reserved

Never the sky always the silence: from Andre Breton

Reviews

[Pete]

this is deep and tightly woven. so engaging. tough to turn away from that elixir. powerfully seductive ... :)

'erotic venom' says it all ...

[DAH]

Thank you, Ted! This is one of my "fragmented poems", and I have a few more that belong to this manuscript. I'm happy to read that it seduced you.

Cheers,
DAH

[Rye]

emotional write, this is deep, nicely written

[DAH]

I'm happy to read that you plunged into the depths of this one.

Thank you,
DAH

[Chris]

Wandering these lines - Its like finding Cliff Notes for your thoughts.

[DAH]

It's from a collection of "fragmented" poems, which is a part of a manuscript-in-progress.
read moreIt's from a collection of "fragmented" poems, which is a part of a manuscript-in-progress.

Thank you!

[Chris]

I meant Cliff Notes for my own thoughts... chuckling here. "Fragments..." a title worth thinking on...

[DAH]

Ok, got it!

My new manuscript is titled "Fragmented" in that it's all over the place ie. no particular theme ... unlike my other 9 books.

[Charlottesellars]

the enjambment was really powerful

[DAH]

I'm glad that it works for you.

Thank you, Charlottesellars.

Over the next couple of days, I'll stop by your page
and take a look at your work.

DAH