Sway of the Summer Moon

The summer moon was swollen, blue A flaw that girl knew thru-and-thru And taking that light's charm in hand She made our bed the dunes of sand With but one gaze her sparkling eyes The loves I'd known met their demise My heart, her gold doubloon to toss Atoned on moonbeam's pearly cross Though drifting on that sea of dunes Our rafts tossed with romantic runes Fierce conflagration seared our cores One bonfire, crooned by ocean roars From first we touched in moonlit skin Our urges merged with summer's sin A carefree dance of limbs and laughs Without the shame for better halves "Oh, murder me" I sighed in passion "Destroy me sweet, in fleshly fashion" For all I'd valued, pride and purpose Lost then, as our sins usurped us The place that wickedness thus stirs My mouth and marrow met with hers The swirling seas of "us" grew wider Frayed, I strayed so deep inside her Warm and wild and wondrous, down To depths where lovers gladly drown Her sinews' flood was mine to taste That dermal landscape laid to waste Our battle waged with bloodless bliss A windswept war wrought from a kiss No quarter giv'n that moonlight's ire We vanquished each last drunk desire With senses spent and cravings calm We soothed in Neptune's briny balm The mad old moon a-dancing bright Our cool swim daubed in tender light Oh, such tender light ... It all seems now a sweetened dream Two lifes ago and years downstream Yet, what we found there on the sand Far more than dreams ... and thrice as grand. ~ 1st Place ~ in the "Strand Completely New (8) Any Theme, Any Form" Poetry Contest, Brian Strand, Judge & Sponsor.