the night sky is blushing with secrets-
slow rise of the full moon by seagrass
smell of tides & milk flowers turning red
my lungs on fire, spinning words on my head
(kiss me) we're running out of breath and time
my skin tingles from the salted margarita limes
your lips swoop down, dizzy as a bee
a kiss so soft as velvet, or was it an earnest plea
for a promise of something more, elusive
yet rain-soothing & kiss-smothered by flowers
you will paint me, you say, with marmalade
sun on my hair, my wrists jaggling with jade
your stolen kiss is a sonnet i slow dance
inviting my words to unfold & take a chance
Posted for dVerse Poets Pub - Poetics: A Prelude to a Kiss, hosted by Kim Russel. Join us when the pub doors open at 3pm EST.
This is exquisitely drawn, Grace! So much to love here especially; "your stolen kiss is a sonnet,".. sigh yes .. it feels like that! 💖💖💖
ReplyDeleteThat is some kiss, Grace! I love the blushing night sky and the way you describe passion in the lines:
ReplyDelete‘my lungs on fire, spinning words on my head
(kiss me) we're running out of breath and time’.
Your poem appeals to all the senses, and I love: ‘your stolen kiss is a sonnet’.
This is wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI love the youthfulness in this... the way lovers run along enchanted with each other, night and nature... absolutely fantastic.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful poem, Grace.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous is me. Beautiful poem, Grace.
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ReplyDeleteThe energy here is wonderful and I like the way you pull in emotions from so many visual strands
ReplyDeletea kiss so soft as velvet, or was it an earnest plea
ReplyDeleteBeautiful line...what a kiss
"your stolen kiss is a sonnet"
ReplyDeleteOh wow!
Luv this poem
Much ❤love
I find the image and lines of "you will paint me, you say, with marmalade/sun on my hair, wrists jaggling with jade" absolutely delicious and ever so stunning - a truly evocative poem that stuns the senses Grace.
ReplyDeletean enticing sonnet 🔥enjoyed the "kiss-smothered by flowers" 💐
ReplyDeleteTake a chance on romance! Lovely.
ReplyDeleteI was sighing all the way through. Nicely done Grace.
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The ending couplet, the whole piece, really, really wonderful!
ReplyDeleteTender. I like it.
ReplyDeleteHow apropos a kiss sonnet, alluring, inviting, enduring -- portals opening with a stolen kiss, the ripening, sultrying invitaiton to dance. The final couplet is pure peaches.
ReplyDeleteLovely sonnet, Grace. And what an opening line!
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