give me this moment to
wrap my self up in
quiet and blur
the line we crossed
with our eyes blind-
folded – our origami hearts
clumsily
trimmed with plastic scissors to
fit the creases neatly along
the edges of color, or of reason, or
of those hushed lies we whisper only to ourselves:
we need nothing more than this.
this
noise – the rhythm of
hearts pounding, lips breathing in
the taste of night from our
skin, this
kiss, this
touch piercing, fingers tracing
our silhouettes
on the bedroom wall.
silence
unraveled, dreams
undreamed – give me
a moment to
silence this breath so
rapid, so chest throbbing lungs
screaming may
hush.
give me this moment,
to come
undone.
wrap my self up in
quiet and blur
the line we crossed
with our eyes blind-
folded – our origami hearts
clumsily
trimmed with plastic scissors to
fit the creases neatly along
the edges of color, or of reason, or
of those hushed lies we whisper only to ourselves:
we need nothing more than this.
this
noise – the rhythm of
hearts pounding, lips breathing in
the taste of night from our
skin, this
kiss, this
touch piercing, fingers tracing
our silhouettes
on the bedroom wall.
silence
unraveled, dreams
undreamed – give me
a moment to
silence this breath so
rapid, so chest throbbing lungs
screaming may
hush.
give me this moment,
to come
undone.
posted by iskra at 9:45 PM
3 Comments:
Tres bien!
I really enjoy your use of linebreak here. And parallel images, the flow of ideas is so mellifluous (a great word that was merriam-webster's "word of the day" today)! Indulgent - in a good way - and very intimate.
Makes me want to read it again. And again.
Sensually approapriate:
mellifluous \muh-LIFF-luh-wus\ adjective
*1 : having a smooth rich flow
2 : filled with something (as honey) that sweetens
Example sentence:
Lucy recognized the actor's mellifluous voice immediately from the many voice-overs he had done for commercials, station breaks, and documentaries.
Did you know?
In Latin, "mel" means "honey" and "fluere" means "to flow." Those two linguistic components flow smoothly together in Late Latin "mellifluus" and Middle English "mellyfluous," the ancestors of "mellifluous." Nowadays the adjective most often applies to the sound of words or speech or music — as it has for centuries. In 1671, for example, poet John Milton wrote in Paradise Regained of the "Wisest of men; from whose mouth issu'd forth / Mellifluous streams...." But "mellifluous" can also be used of flavor, as in the following rave from an article entitled "The Sublime Wine": "The first taste sensation is an electric sweetness that explodes within the mouth, but what emerges after swallowing is a mellifluous, lingering flavor...." (James Villas, Town & Country, December 1991)
wow. carrot dude. I'm glad you liked the poem. It's been a while since I wrote this one, and it's funny how reading it again, now, today, brings back the feeling that gave it life.
I really need to start writing again.
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