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Your Touch

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Your Touch

As you turn over
in your sleep,

the pebbled grapefruit
of your cheek
grazes mine.

That swift percussion
of your heart
raises the blanket
stretched tight as a drum
between us.

Beat of your blood,
warmth of your thigh.
Your lips
another country,

divided from me
by that high border
of your shoulder
and the gravel of your heart.

Once, the touch of lips 
warm in their fervor,
rather than a mistake
in the night.

Once, the amaryllis
cast twilight
over our bed.
A harbinger

of yellow roses,
their petals fallen
over your pillow.
Their thorns.

 

For Weekly Scribblings  the prompt was to pick any three words from the given word list that fit the mood/theme of your prose or poem and write on a topic of your choice. 
amaryllis                  somewhat                percussion                darkness                  grapefruit
deep                           cast                         warmth                       blood                          touch
gravel                        twilight                    lips                              sky                             sleep
bedside                      scones                     fervour                      harbinger                 cogitation

Hibiscus with Gold Dome: FOTD Jan 7 2020

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For Cee’s FOTD

Oxygen

Oxygen

I breathe you out
and breathe you in
as you restore my lack.
With your passing,
fine hairs on my arms
stand at attention,
as though reaching out
for the mere touch
of you.

You surround and enter me,
then beat a hasty retreat,
in and out like children
passing through
a kitchen door.

Needing something,
then needing to be gone,
 called in again
by request or need.

You fill and nourish me.
You lift my tresses
from my shoulders,
tangle my fringe,
blow the insignificant
from my life.
Deposit autumn leaves,
like sad reminders
of your passing.

For the dVerse Poets Pub prompt: The elements.

Altamira Oriole: Homebody #1, Jan 7 2020

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Looking out the window, I viewed what I think was an altamira oriole.
Finally, a visitor to my hummingbird feeder. Every species welcome.

https://www.amnh.org/about/press-center/new-study-doubles-the-estimate-of-bird-species-in-the-world

The Home Photo Challenge is to take one photo a day from around your home and to post it. Here’s my first post!

December Sunset: Monday Window, Jan 6 2020

 

IMG_9222.jpegFor the Monday Window Challenge.

Poinsettia Jan 6, 2020

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ForCee’s FOTD

Silhouette: FOTD Jan 5 2020

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For Cee’s Flower of the Day.

Mountaineers

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Mountaineers

However many acts we stage, however many innings,
we’re constantly made vulnerable by our new beginnings.
One resolution brings another problem to be mounted—
a new one starting just as soon as the last one is counted.
We ascend each mountain, and when we reach the top,
we see summit after summit and know we’ll never stop.
It may seem that for some others life is a flat plain.
We may resent our struggles, but as much as we complain,
catching sight of that new mountain, we begin the climb again.

 

Prompts today are new beginnings, vulnerable,resolution, ascend and stop.

Birds of Paradise: Jan 3, 2020 FOTD

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ForCee’s FOTDprompt

Bougainvillea: FOTD Jan 2, 2020

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See Cee’s wonderful FOTD HERE.