Best Tracings Poems
Sunlight surfaced at the breach of dawn
It climbed salty rungs to emerge from the sea
When fully risen, what had been spawned?
A molten fireball cast from the dragon's breath,
a firey yawn exhaled in languorous flight
searing tangerine flames across the horizon
Daylight drifted over waking valleys and hills
in dappled luminance of shimmering gold
It danced in pirouettes upon my window sill
and chased shadows from my bedroom wall
until it tumbled on the bed where my love slept
He stirred, I smiled and then wept with emotion
at the passion glimmering in drowsy jade eyes
With each rise and fall of his muscular chest
the heated flush of desire within me burned
Sinewy arms reached out for me...
"Come back to bed," whispered from his lips
and my gown lay puddled upon the floor
I'd had enough of watching sunlight's strolling
for it had stolen too many moments next to him
My toes were cold from morning's chill
but it was not from Winter weather that I quivered
It was time to savor the sweet warmth of love
from his fingertip tracings upon my skin
TRACINGS
so
pleasing
conversation
diffused
imbued
varieagated
in
deep sentiment
uppermost
identity
reawkened
a
passing
ressemblance
envisaged
&
beholden
an echo
of
a respectabilty
played out
in
twylight
splendour
All those problems can't be solved with iron hands and
There's no pace in that marathon that's leading you out West.
Have you found an ardent way to hold that desert sand?
Will you be coming around this way again?
Wheres the tracing your using as a map?
You never fill in the blanks.
Once thought your life was figured out but you've got that feeling back.
You've got to chase that sun or watch it crash.
It's been about a year since you last tore open your seems.
And quickly filled the empty space with others thoughts and dreams.
Does the higher view give a new perspective on how the worlds supposed to be?
A longing face is all that I can see.
Wheres the tracing your using as a map?
You never fill in the blanks.
Once thought your life was figured out but you've got that feeling back.
You've got to chase that sun or watch it crash.
I don't know what your looking for, but I've seen how fast you calmly closed your own doorway and left us all behind. I hope when you get there it feels right.
Wheres the tracing your using as a map?
You never fill in the blanks.
Once thought your life was figured out but you've got that feeling back.
You've got to chase that sun or watch it crash.
TRACINGS
so
pleasing
conversation
diffused
imbued
varieagated
in
deep sentiment
uppermost
identity
reawkened
a
passing
ressemblance
envisaged
&
beholden
an echo
of
a respectabilty
played out
in
twylight
splendour
Where did you go
Where are you now
Unreachable unattainable
Disappeared disenchanted
Vanquished vanished
Gone like the wind
A past stirred up
Of hurts and bruises
Your gaping silence
Unexplained unforgiving
Burning wind persisting
Through brush fire
Time separating us
Pungent scent of ashes
Over its expanding rift
Irreversible irretrievable
AP: Honorable Mention 2020
Submitted on August 31, 2020 for contest COMPLETELY YOUR CHOICE sponsored by BRIAN STRAND - RANKED 1ST