Wednesday, July 31, 2013
IF YOU HAVE KISSED ME THEN YOU KNOW
i devoured him
as if he were a cherry in my mouth
all of them
i have
dived into
as if they were the sea
heads underwater
tongues serpentining
throats
and every one of them
would take me back
every one of them
still dream the same dream
if you have kissed me then
you know what i mean
the greatest gift
you can give a lover
is to allow them to breathe
underwater
everything seems so close
until you get closer
everything seems so daffodil
until you learn how to swim
but i have never mistook a tidal wave
for a broken halo or a spool of thread
though more than once i have mistaken a body
for a promise i wanted to keep
above all i believe
we are as trivial as we are burning
above all i believe
all men are born free
kiss me kiss me kiss me, my sweet
kiss me and you will know what i mean
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(this poem was inspired by the works of Sylvia Plath)
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Only in my dreams that I will never tell, where my heart soul mind wondered, beyond your flease and fragrant vail; only in those restless and sleepless nights, did I taste forbidden fruit, and ravish angelic Venus, without your leave, without any - lawful rights.
ReplyDeleteInspiring and gorgeous. I just wrote a poem about lips last night.
ReplyDeleteThis is my favorite line: "but i have never mistook a tidal wave
for a broken halo or a spool of thread"
That gave me chills.