Romance

As the twilight fades in a red-feathered sky candles melt, their flame dancing in the ocean's breeze of softness where two watch the sunset and welcome the moon slowly rising to splay its beams upon the incoming tide wine is poured, a rose given its fragrant scent lingers as lovers bow to a timeless moment where each heartbeat is felt that stretches one to another in a union of passion's silent space the waves are a distant sound of rhythmic motion heard but not heard the sand is cool and wet and clings to the skin unnoticed as two become silhouettes on the shore beneath a black sky of star-lit glow that has turned a dusky gray before the red-feathered sky returns from the sun slowly rising 4/5/23 contest Writing Challenge "R" words sponsor Constance La France