Recalling Your Kiss




I recall the kiss of your lips, only to increase this feeling of desperate hunger. Striving to taste the sweetness in a ripe strawberry during the winter fast… to quench my thirst in time of desert drought… to capture fleeting youth with a net, broken and frayed. Do memories mock the turning hands of the clock? Do they give us the power to travel through time? No. For we are but ghosts in our yesterdays. Unable to touch, feel, nor taste the sepia snapshots of fallible memory. Only one vibrant picture in bold color to be prodded with the shock of a finger in a hot socket… the ache of pain in my difibrillated heart.
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Jones Avatar
January 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Somber but beautiful!
Woods Avatar
January 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Tysm! Xo
Rodrigues Avatar
January 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
True, the memory is nothing like the moments. You’ve captured this so nicely, Crystol!
Woods Avatar
January 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Thank you Kim! Xo
Rodgers Avatar
January 24, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Dear Crystol, As I read your poem this morning I thought how your words ache with raw longing and the bittersweet weight of memory. You’ve truly and wonderfully captured the fragility of time and the power of love to haunt us in beautifully vivid strokes. This is heartbreak, gorgeously rendered. Winter Blessings, My Dear Friend, Daniel
Woods Avatar
January 24, 2025 at 6:41 AM
What soothing words to wake to this morning! I feel petted and I preen under your complimentary sentiments! Tysm! Xo
Buhagiar Avatar
January 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
What a beautiful poem you wrote. Your alliteration is magnificent. Emotions abound in this poem. Well done.
Woods Avatar
January 24, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I so appreciate your review of my poem! I feel good, dadadadada, like I knew that I would... lol, you got me singing! Xo
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