Inherent Swimming

Stepping past the crater towards your door,
     I am reminded of warm days
surrendered in flowery abandon while
     brushing against cool veins of
leafy promise, requiring only the slightest
     compassion for the flow of life.

The scope of our crusade sings bitter,
     like absinthe in a Fanta bottle;
tangs of anise and wormwood persist
     within ether's truthful vision
resisting factory flavors in a curtain,
     velvet reminders of flesh.

Lap your moistened shape. You dissolve,
     my expectant sugar cube, no longer
made jagged by expectation or campaign
     but fragile again, doughy in
blissful rapture upon my snacking,
     curling up in a fetal calm

until we flow once more with the surge
     propelling us entangled yet
unencumbered, finally breathing our
     amniotic potential within this
spiritual umbilical making my stomach
     spin within these tugs of finality,

despite my carpenter's heart yearning to
     mend or create. Do arrogance and
industry compel mankind's devastation? Such
     a question drifts unanswered as I
kiss your wrist before strapping on my boots
     to hurl my blood into the fray.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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Williams Avatar
April 22, 2009 at 6:40 AM
Outstanding work John, the flow is perfect, the imagery a marvel.... wonderful stuff my friend !
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April 22, 2009 at 12:36 AM
Now that is such eloquent writing in my opinion, warm and free flowing. Definitely a firm favourite! Thanks for your kind comments on my writes, Anna-Marie.
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April 21, 2009 at 4:12 PM
The memories of "warm days" can fuel our passions for a lifetime. We cannot "mend or create" their beauty, only look forward to finding "blissful rapture" once again. Beautiful poem, John. Love, Carolyn
Moreno Avatar
April 21, 2009 at 10:05 AM
Nice opening line John, Great use of imagery and free verse...Raul
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April 21, 2009 at 9:06 AM
I love it...very good....we seem to keep missing each other on chat dont we? I'm on now...but this is wonderful write!:)
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