Snipped Strings and a Long Journey Home

In the summer, when
our cracked spines
split
like melons in the heat
we reached toward

the unattainable sun, unbearable dreams.

You kissed me, hard, under the
midnight moon like no regrets,
Our dangling cigarettes tainted the air.

Shivering smoke may have combined
with your skin-scented cocoa
until the lines and boundaries 
between love and
insanity

were blurred (by sweet silver vapor, by the
weight of our snipped strings our cracked
souls our silent songs).

You kissed me, hard, like no regrets,
like the craziness that consumes us all,
like a long journey
home.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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Brown Avatar
July 12, 2011 at 4:27 AM
A warm welcome to PoetrySoup I offer to you Carly. I wish for you the best in your writing endeavors whatever they may be. May you find inspiration by reading some of the poetry written here by other poets. Read and comment on their's and they will return in kind. May the sun shine on you that you might find great joy in your life. Love and blessing always, Carol
Sumler Avatar
July 11, 2011 at 6:43 PM
Very beautiful write! Loved each thought you put into this splendid piece from the begining line to the end!
Schmidt Avatar
July 11, 2011 at 7:07 PM
Wow! Thank you so much!
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