Kiss Me Like Spring

I love your gentleness,
How your hands
Move like early Spring...

When you kiss me,
It is as if I am a dandelion;
All delicate spider-web
Gossamer threads and 
Finespun silk fragility-
Your fingers on my cheek
Feel like the spring thaw,
As if I am ice only just 
Learning how to move 
Like water again...
When you kiss me,
It is with all the warmth,
The tender slowness,
Of early morning sunlight-
When you kiss me,
It is as if I am nearly
As insubstantial as sunlight...

But eventually even a dandelion
Wants to be blown away-
When a frozen waterfall meets
The Spring thaw, it does wake
Slowly, soft as Sunday morning-
It rises up like a roar, plunging
Down through space until
It is pounding like a heartbeat
That never stuttered for 
Even a moment-
The seasons can teach you
That sunlight is anything but
Insubstantial;
It is heat and passion and
Faster than the sound
Of the shifting winds gasping
To keep up...

I love your gentleness,
How your hands
Move like early Spring...

But sometimes I wish
That you would kiss me
Like late Spring-
I want you to kiss me
Like a dandelion on the wind,
Like a waterfall waking up,
Like sunlight burning through
The dawn like passion;
I want you to surround me
And beat down hard like an
April rainstorm- to breathe
Me like petrichor and hold me
Like raindrops clinging to 
Blades of grass, like raindrops
Soaking into the ground
Until there is no closer...
I want you to make me 
Feel like I'm coming to life.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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Smith Avatar
June 12, 2014 at 10:34 AM
Oh! Cameron, I get lost in this poem and I don't want to find my way out... Beyond beautiful.. Congrats on your awesome win!!.. A fan.. Arlene..
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June 9, 2014 at 12:59 PM
This one a great piece...:) wow!!!
Andresen Avatar
June 9, 2014 at 12:28 PM
- Really beautiful poem !!! - Congratulations on your fine first place Cameron !! - oxox // Anne-Lise :)
Nance Avatar
June 9, 2014 at 11:55 AM
Wow!!! What a marvelous poem! No wonder you have placed first you are a winner! Way to go :) love it :)
A   Avatar
June 9, 2014 at 10:11 AM
CAMERON, NICE WIN...PD
Khan Avatar
June 8, 2014 at 11:51 PM
Congratulations on your win ! :) Wishes---
Lindley Avatar
June 7, 2014 at 7:05 PM
This is a great and brilliant write! I read it feeling like floating down a cool stream on a on a calm day and all is right in the world!!! Bravo and bravo!!!!!!!!!
Sietesantos Avatar
June 7, 2014 at 6:13 PM
Fantastic imagery - beautiful write! Congratulations on an excellent win!!!
Callus Avatar
June 7, 2014 at 4:24 PM
This is beautiful, Cameron! Touched all the senses. Congrats on a top win! // paul
Dorken Avatar
June 7, 2014 at 3:28 PM
Wonderful flow of images and power.
A. Sharma Avatar
June 7, 2014 at 2:41 PM
Congrats on top place win on a superb romantic piece Cameron !
Johnson Avatar
June 7, 2014 at 11:14 AM
A lovely win. Very nice. Congratulations. Love, Joyce
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June 7, 2014 at 9:22 AM
Wonderful win.... Luv - Skat
Mehta Avatar
June 7, 2014 at 6:51 AM
Congratulations on the fine win in the contest Just Write, Hartley
Morrison Avatar
June 7, 2014 at 5:56 AM
Very beautiful piece! Well done!
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