Silhouettes On the Shore

Trembles serenaded my heart before the coming storm affection was blowing toward me with unburdened arms in an unruffled evening with a fiery red sky and continuous waves that drowned the shore I embraced the silent space in a moment caressed satiny rhythmic sounds, music from the sea added to the fluidity of her movements in her summer dress of yellow caught by the sea breeze to dance with each step allowing a vision of perfection to be cast upon my soul like a fisherman's woven net She paused... So my eyes could regale on her alone and melt away with the fabric of time where lovers dwell with measured caresses and soft feathered fingers skimming across the skin while the clock hand turned with each kiss drifting slowly into a vanishing night of star-light and moon glows splayed upon the tender mouths of lovers until a veil dropped as we became silhouettes on the shore revealing smoldering fires within exposing our hearts with all their ashes leaving flickering fervor where lovers lay exploring dreams in a sanctuary of solitude before being washed away... by the dawn's incoming tide 7/31/22 Contest Anything Goes judged 8/2/22 contest Writing Challenge-X'd poems second chance sponsor Constance La France