She's Apples

In Australia and New Zealand a term meaning 'nice'

She’s Apples

I seek to test the safety

and security of your heart.

I see you apples and spice

and think I may be losing my mind

as I drift carelessly

back to love.

I have burned in hell’s fires,

soaked in the accelerant

scorn of women past,

and I have hidden

beneath the cloak of anger and hurt

afraid to take a breath

lest I suffocate in the vile vomit

spewed from those diseased souls.

But you come in gentle strokes,

offer me redemption,

lay yourself bare and open

to every desire I own;

your voluptuous generosity

making my mortal flesh

weak with dripping salivation.

So, so apples and rice

that I cannot resist

such warm temptation.

04/05/13

Reviews

[Frieda P]

Wow, what a quirky rendition of what love is and is not, it works so well...sweet as warm pie and direct as the knife that cuts into it...so clever John, kudos!!

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you Freida. Just emotion on a page really.

[KAOlmsted]

So here's me, taking a carefree stroll through this lovely orchard full of apples and spice and everything nice, when all of a sudden, I get spewed upon...vile vomit, and hell's fires, and diseased souls...then, just as I am properly seething over the injustice of rancid love affairs, I'm pushed back out into the sunshine and told everything's jake...

Quite the ride you took me on there, John...I thoroughly enjoyed the hell out of it, too ;-)

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Ha is that not the formula in romantic movies? Thank you Kimmer for tending the orchard.

[KAOlmsted]

;-) Always my pleasure.

[s y e]

Wow, it's lovely how you express your love so openly and freely! I loved this, John! You are head over heels for her ;-)

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thanks Sye. Truly emotion on parchment.

[Emerald Seas]

Well... wow! Enjoyed that read. It's so refreshing to see a man fully in love and able to express it so freely. Nicely penned, John!

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you QSS. Things flow and fit when emotion takes hold.