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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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Date: 1/25/2025 1:42:00 AM
Somber but beautiful!
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Crystol Woods
Date: 1/30/2025 8:41:00 AM
Tysm! Xo
Date: 1/24/2025 7:29:00 AM
True, the memory is nothing like the moments. You’ve captured this so nicely, Crystol!
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Crystol Woods
Date: 1/30/2025 8:41:00 AM
Thank you Kim! Xo
Date: 1/24/2025 4:42:00 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
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Crystol Woods
Date: 1/24/2025 6:41:00 AM
What soothing words to wake to this morning! I feel petted and I preen under your complimentary sentiments! Tysm! Xo
Date: 1/24/2025 1:48:00 AM
What a beautiful poem you wrote. Your alliteration is magnificent. Emotions abound in this poem. Well done.
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Crystol Woods
Date: 1/24/2025 6:44:00 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
Date: 1/23/2025 7:40:00 AM
Whoa this is deeper than your usual. Had to read it twice. The ache of lost bloom of youth as well as the memories of sweet embraces is palpable. Trying to bring to life a fibrous heart hardened by age and who knows what else made for a cool ending. Kudos kiddo
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Crystol Woods
Date: 1/24/2025 6:45:00 AM
Yay!!! Wow, I'm so humbled by the good feedback I'm receiving here! Thanks so very much! Xo

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