What Spikes My Pulse

To sip sickly sweet cardamom
tea with cinnamon and honey
And eat cakes by the Parthenon
where the whole blue world is sunny 

Not a single sweet iced daydream
not some drug induced affection
Can warm me like your mild sunbeams 
and your smothering perfection

The potions that I, earthly, know
create happiness so it seems
But no gilded high nor base low
can match you in my fevered dreams

I snatch at the shiniest toys
I can't stop my sickly impulse
Of all the injectible joys
Your love is what spikes my pulse
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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Kendrick Avatar
December 22, 2016 at 11:51 AM
Your choice from the five choices is an excellent one in my book..I was so delighted to read your poem..Thanks for the entry in my contest your participation was encouraging and uplifting to me..Congrats on your placement..Sara..I am sorry that it took me so long to do my congrats but things have been happening that were beyond my control..
Nomaly  Avatar
December 22, 2016 at 6:50 PM
oh the late response is fine. And thank you for the encouragement!
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