Last day of National Poetry Month. Highlights from this month includes some haikus and lamenting my missing creativity. While I’ll continue posting poetry, I feel it important to note the end of the month with a motley crew of poetry. I’m utilizing Andy’s prompt for the first.
Prompt: Unintended Consequences
Word Count: 123
Jealousy
Opening my mouth to defend my decisions
Lips gaping wide, words silent as I face the divisions
I’ve caused with my good intentions
Cut you too deep with the attention of another
Without even realizing that when I saw friendship
You saw lover? My heart with this other?
I lie naked, vulnerable as you rend me double
Flip me over and take my body
As you take my silence, weaving words of trouble
Accursed I am, broken apart by pleasure
No amount of explanation will suffice
When each thrust you give accuses me of lies
And my moans of surrender are pleas for unrealized sins
Our mutual pleasure should’ve spelled forgiveness then
But the knife in my back covers where love should’ve been
*
His Gaze
It captivates me the intensity of his eyes
The way they follow me
Travel swiftly along my naked curves
Marking paths they plan to caress
Fierce and demanding
Commanding me to open, part, and give
Watching as I kneel
Arousing me long before I feel
The depth of the desire
Burning hot in his eyes
*
This love takes me
It’s the beginning of something new
Filling my heart with the joy
That I know you
That you are mine
*
Puss
Slick and needy
Open, greedy
Rhythmic clenching
Nipples pinching
Arched high
Tethered by
Fingers plunging
Hips lunging
Come
Coming
Here I come
*
A haiku
Bent, open wide
Vulnerable and spread
Yours – change me
Comments
Love. Them. All.
Author
Awesome!
I really like the ambivalence of the first. And the last line of the haiku. .. wow! To give oneself up like that… hot…
Author
I like the haiku. It makes me happy. I’ll stop by and check your story out soon. 🙂
Great!
Author
Not much. Packing, fighting writer’s block. The usual
Author
A little. Finishing up one job and preparing for another. So busy enough. 🙂
I like the haiku.
But for some reason, the ones in the middle (His Gaze, the un named one, and Puss) are my favorites.
Author
Glad you like them. Resurrected them to share.
I tried several times to reply earlier, so let’s see if I can recall what I had said…
Wow.
Great work, thanks for sharing such a wonderful selection of your work.
Author
Ahaha. Okay. Sorry it was giving you fits. I’m glad you were able to comment because I appreciated reading it.
I think it was on my end, well the app was to blame. I enjoyed Puss quite a bit. Made me smile.
Author
I’ve noticed the app has been acting weird lately. It posts comments where it shouldn’t.
That particular poem I’d posted a while ago on my private site. Figured it was worth sharing.
Very much so!
I echo the very first comment. 😉
Author
Thanks for saying so. I was hurriedly writing right before my department meeting started. Glad my colleagues weren’t looking over my shoulder.
Ha ha! 😉
It’s refreshing to see poetry in response to a writing prompt. If you are fighting writers’ block it doesn’t show. All of your pieces were, dare I say, touching…
Author
Thanks! I took liberties obviously, but I tend to fall back on poetry when prose fails me. It’s been failing me lately.