March 15, 2025
~Third Place ~ Premiere Contest: 2025 Poetry Marathon Mile 13 Sponsor: Mark Toney
~ Ninth Place ~ Premiere Contest: Angels Sponsor: Mystic Rose Rose
In a state of half a dream and half awake I await I await you and anticipate tantra trinkets glitter across old crone skies scattered stars the litter of our synchronized wishes broken symbols of our disenchanted rune cosmic poets cursed lutestring-verse rhymed for us I’m lost astray a pearl loosed from a fractured string lost in ashes of embers our fire that fed the sun will you search a cosmos of starving stars their shimmer growing dimmer til light withers will you search a famished universe to find me a spec of earthly widow-dust settled ..stilled sweet Venus intercede before dark recedes listen a nightingale’s sonnet song rides night air melody’s flame melts ice-blonde moonbeams a buttery pool the smitten singer’s spotlight —his rhapsody brims his beloved to swoon oh Venus let lyric-desire be my angel’s glide path in a state of half a dream and half awake my sensual soulmate I anticipate invite for my griever-skin to frost-bite-tingle in thaw touch me warm my angel touch me warm billow tender breeze through window’s yawn pale cheeks brushed lips shushed a lover’s rush a rush as light as a silk scarf’s skim on skin I tremble like a sonata cello string soft breaths move curtains and swell my sighs wind spirit croons my name I close my eyes your ethereal presence glides on wind song your physical absence abides in our bed how poetic this dual ache throbbing the same passion space in a state of half a dream and half awake I’m a pearl knotted yet unstrung
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