When you turn
I know
To press my lips to yours.

Gently
Your mouth moves on mine
And I never want to stop the taste of you.

There are no words.
We just know
As though it’s steps we’ve done before
As though we can breathe in
the thoughts and feelings
of the heart.

Hours in tandem
End in reluctance.
The burn of whiskers on my face
A fair price
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Title: “Relentless”

They let me be,

Just be

Even if I do nothing

They move me,

Draw me,

Pull me,

Want me.

“Avoid the riptide”

He says.

“No!” I want to scream

But the clash and clamor

Always swallow my awkward words

“No,” I’d yell

“I won’t avoid the hunger.

Waves:

Make me yours!”

They push and shove

Tendrils of turf grab greedily

Dragging me

Willing to hold me always

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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

Agatha Christie

Title: "Lure ( Read more... )

Title: “Shattered”

Here and there
Between grey rocks and pebbles
Hide smooth colors of the past

Washed ashore
Like scales scattered
By a well-traveled leviathan.

Waves caress away the sharpness
Of the shattered and broken,
Never again to cause pain.

Many search.
What can never be whole
Is treasured in their hands.

Broken pieces
Reshaped into jewelry
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All that is left of my time with you is a pink line. Up and down.  A raised, blushing bump divides my right heel.

It is my only physical memory of you.

You lived so briefly in my body. Am I allowed to call it lived? Did you float, did your heart beat?  Was something living there? My doctor said, “Maybe the heart never started.  We can never know.”

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I trap my feelings on the page, the screen, the paper prison bursting with words. Carefully, I line them up in rows, containing the chaos in my mind. I tie them down with punctuation, periods planting them firmly in black and white so they can't fly up to hit and scream, to touch, to change, to rage and shred my unsteady reality ( Read more... )

Title: "The Marking ( Read more... )

*NOTE: The story is set in Great Britain in 2067 ( Read more... )

Beauty ( Read more... )