Line Gauthier Poet Terzanelle

The Essence of Soft Shadows

Conjuring enchantment with its breath bewitching
Sublime your perfume ravishes the midnight air
With delirious abandon most sultry and beguiling

Caressing every minute curvature and every hair
Like wistful undulous fingers on the prowl
Sublime your perfume ravishes the midnight air

Audaciously meandering enticing scantily afoul
Dancing its seductive way around every curve
Like wistful undulous fingers on the prowl

With delirious abandon mesmerize and swerve
A divine reverence to the essence of soft shadows
Dancing its seductive way around every curve

Bemused intrigued and fascinated by the petals of a rose
Envious beauteous promiscuous yet virtuously amorous
A divine reverence to the essence of soft shadows

Deviously fabulous while tortuous and vaporous
Conjuring enchantment with its breath bewitching
Your spellbinding perfume renders my heart impetuous
With delirious abandon most sultry and beguiling



AP: 3rd place 2025

Submitted on May 16, 2019 for contest APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE sponsored by RICHARD LAMOUREUX  -  RANKED 4TH

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Timothy Mcguire June 4, 2019 at 3:07 PM What a wonderful way of words Nice Poem Nice win Line Gauthier June 4, 2019 at 3:08 PM Thank you so much, Timothy. Much appreciated.

Mike Gentile May 14, 2018 at 9:19 AM I love the sensual quality which permeates your poem Line. A great concept for the challenge of this contest Well Done xxoo Happy Monday Line Gauthier May 14, 2018 at 9:34 AM Thank you so much, Mike. Most appreciated.

Caren Krutsinger May 14, 2018 at 8:15 AM This is beautiful and delightful; I am now looking up three of these words. Thanks for extending my vocabulary, Line. Line Gauthier May 14, 2018 at 9:35 AM Thanks so much for your lovely visit and comment, Caren. I think when poets put words that are knowingly way off the beaten path, it is courteous to add the definition at the bottom. If only I could follow my own advice.

Heidi Sands May 13, 2018 at 3:27 PM I just knew this was going to be amazing and it is. Well done! Good luck in the contest :) Line Gauthier May 13, 2018 at 3:43 PM Thank you so much, Heidi. Most appreciated.