13.1k views, 2xBest Poetry Period. A nothing from nowhere cast words to a world wide wind. |
my heart throbbed for fire red hair, a cherub who could not conceive her reflection, a devilish grin on pottery-glazed cheeks -- matter of fact ignored blue piercing her green when she openly stared at a crow. and when we hit a smoky lake superior strip with that college clan drinking on land, they dared bare skin. your sweater cast off, revealed pink panties, braved waves hurtling ashore. and alone, I shoved off, defeated. I didn’t want to share you or know if yip, yip, yipping jackals had owned you in our moonlight. just an unknowable, self-protective wall of man, too afraid to go free, naked with a spirited, animal baying. lacking sacrifice of virgin skin in ice black air, flesh I longed entwine never warmed this soul's container. I'm an island of man, not a public spectacle. immoral to project a vision for you I could never embrace as my own. 3.15.22 20 lines, free verse Love Unrequited, it seemed. I wanted irony twist at end to see who really should be condemned. From the much longer: "Not So Much As A Bare Toe " |