Muses humming,reaching into the dark,feeling lost in not knowing,to turn on the light, so they can see the other,the one they long for.They turn on the light,and bounce off the shadows. Leave your darkness, then;bless your shadows and go.Feel the fire of desirelight up my inspire. Every word births another.Every note sends the words,finds a […]
Poetry Corner: Kiss Me with Your Eyes
Kiss me with your eyes.Don’t be afraid of the flame.You kissed me once with your lips,Long ago; I remember it well.There was no shame. Salty streams to our tongues.Tears flowed togetherTickling the skin of our cheeks.Eyelashes caressed.So, kiss me now, with your eyes. Kiss me with your eyes,And the water of love–Be still. Matt and […]
Poetry Corner: Long, Slow Cooking
Smells dissolve into tastes,yet no spoon to sauce;just imagining is enough. Onion, tears of onion,burning cloves of garlic,lingerie for nude beans. Smell and taste like touchSensuous food strokesErotica of taste, like breath on skin. Orgasm of spices,so reptilian brain-like,the way smell-taste feels. We eat so fast, we forget… Stew boiling over fire,masking Girl Scout desires.Some-mores […]
Poetry Corner: Serenity
On the other side is serenity. I am a tree, growing by rings of the year,losing a branch or twig now and then,being bent and creaked by the wind. But inside, deeply under scratchy bark,my sap flows silently in the darkto every twig and leaf, flower and fruit. It takes time to find serenity’s root.Time […]
Poetry Corner: Untie the (K)not
Untie the (k)not,that one in your middle.The (k)not that says you can’t survivethe one that keeps you from feeling alive. Untie the (k)not,that one in your chest.The (k)not that holds your fear of loving,the one that keeps your wings from soaring. Untie the (k)not,that one in your throat.The (k)not that locks away your words,the one […]
Poetry Corner: Breathe
Breathing, Me breathing soulBreathing, Lover breathing feelingBreathing, House breathing heatBreathing, Fish breathing waterBreathing, Shells breathing chimes Breathing, Earth breathing windBreathing, Humans breathing usBreathing, Moon breathing EarthBreathing, the Universe breathes Everything breathes, everything livesWind and water, Earth and MoonYou and I, lover and soulWe breathe, we live; breathe… © 2011 Joanne Sprott
