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Simply Poetry

Simply Poetry

For you I wish that these poems were rubies, borne by my own caravan from Xi'an out of Shaanxi, through Persia, along the northern Silk Road
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All these I celebrate
Let me celebrate parts of you so secret, even you have not seen –
and then across the floor in whispers, edging in until it edges to the lamplight, breath to breath.
The way the light comes in across a room, spread through the curtains, first one side and then the other,
I want to touch you with the tenderness of tears, each finger tracing down the touch each touch would take across each cheek.
Teach me to be gentle, unhurried as the rain, or the soft wind rising through the branches of the trees.
and linger where my eyes will linger, lost in stillness here, until that certain and uncertain dream gives me away.
I want to speak your name so softly only you can hear,
flings your exhausted rapture to the dust. • Fading in the distance, the stallion, lust. •
you like fire. You ride – and the frenzy lasts • until the vast, final aftertremor •
Lust is a wild-maned stallion, with its eyes • glazed and a restless fever sprawling down •
clenched against tautness, skin on unquiet skin. • You feel it rise, swollen, in your belly, •
its flanks. And when you mount it, you spread out • your legs wide, feel that heat suffuse through thighs •
And then you ride – like an earthquake torn • from the steppes. You ride – and the wind streams past •
that hunger from the garden of earthly • delights, a prurient secret held within... •
{ My friend @LauraLME Laura Mercurio Elbohan's poetry book "If I Look Inside" has been released http://iamlauramercurio.com/2009... Please check it out! }
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