THE INTROSPECTION CHRONICLES 11| THE SMELL OF SUN BURNT DUST
Feel me in the pale sand that crusts your feet
As you walk yonder beach picking pebbles
To later watch skip through placid streams
Beneath old mangrove trees watching long ago
As if it was just yesterday.
Of forebears breathing fire, bearding anthill masquerades,
As they weave warp and weft into the loom
to forge a new cloth for honey skinned girls
Still dreaming of summer fruits heavy with diamond dew
Drip dropping from leafy tips to knife blade green grass
Already parting like light skirts for the eager thump
Of brisk boys kicking balls, throwing stones and sticks,
Staking claims... staking claims.
Thousands and thousands of light and a single me,
A wavering candle in the breeze calling moths
To feed, to dance in abandon, smitten in adoration,
to fall faint before me, wings tattered,
smelling gently of roasting flesh and sun burnt dust.
From the floor that i adorned and dreamed upon
The dreams of tender youth and suckling shoots
Dripping with bee buzz seeking sweet, sweet nectar,
Tasting the air with antennas around pubescent petals
Peeled open like the first page of a new book
Still smelling of new paper and ink, grease, oil and sweat;
fat hungry thighs slick with sweat, slick with heat.
My baked skin on your innocent sheets like a stain;
Dried blood on linoleum tiles, the first kiss of womanhood,
First sweet pain, metallic scent calling carrion feeders to the carcass,
swollen in pride at its own story, and waiting for you, for us
To rustle our skins beneath covers, rumpling sheets,
Creasing pages of well thumbed stories like snakes
shedding skins, bodies that are worn down with use.
Pimpled with goose bumps as each brush stroke
Reveals more of what the cracked mirror tries to hide.
Fend off the touch of the sun with a little more blush
And hide each scar with a well worn scarf.
warpedpoetic, 2019
so beautiful @warpedpoetic you really create this wonderful succulent world with your words and describe everything so well and so beautifully xx
One of my favourite pieces, I really look forward to reading more of your wonderful creations, you really have this wonderful ability to transport me into your writing xx
Thank you @trucklife-family for your kind words. It is folks like you that have kept me writing for this long.
Stunning, stunning, stunning as usual. Such beautiful imagery. My favourite?
Thankyou for gracing Steem - and #creativecoin - with your beautiful poetry. xx
Oooh thank you @riverflows. I am glad you liked this piece. I hope i keep having the opportunity to keep delivering such pieces on steem.
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