In the early days of Summer
I still lingered on the vine
not yet ripe enough for picking
not ready to be sipped as fine wine
Soon, I blossomed with desire
It raged deep down inside of me
burning me like tongues of fire
I needed only to be tenderly peeled
When his fingers gently touched me
the time had come for me to yield
With sensuous lips he coaxed me
On passion's hunger we both dined
through each night until dawn's light
he suckled my sweet summer wine
Categories:
blossomed, desire,
Form: Rhyme
When last the lilacs blossomed there
Outside my childhood home
The losses I would come to bear
Were hitherto unknown
When last the lilacs blossomed there
Beneath the shady elm
To sweet star jasmine’s scent compared
They did so underwhelm
When last the lilacs blossomed there
We both were green and small
Though decades passed without a care
I’ve barely grown at all
When last the lilacs blossomed there
Be it memories or in dreams
Their tender fragrance fills the air
Much stronger now, it seems
When last the lilacs blossomed there
When last I called them mine
I knew home could not be anywhere
But Twenty-first and Vine.
Categories:
blossomed, childhood, flower, garden, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Tiptoeing fond emotions how playfully you tease
Titillating seductively my memories to appease
Springs that once blossomed passionate appeal
When indulgent eyes met contours of your zeal
Tantalizing tenor of love quixotic rhythms reveal.
I hear those melodies, romantic heartbeats revive,
Pulsing strings of heart on its tempo they thrive
Promising forgotten vibes, fervid past is still alive
When gently you arrive awakening frozen dreams
Delighting love-beats, crooning amorous themes.
You sense as I do, why unsated feelings still woo,
Why the un-bloomed seasons are trying to renew
Autumns full of gilded hues you once withdrew
Disheartening two ardent souls beholden and true;
As love now rustles anew, what am I to construe?
Oh! how ebulliently you bloomed in our first kiss
When blazing impulses tolled moments of bliss,
I recognize those footprints as delicately you spree
In courtyard of longings, venerating you and me,
As whispers of intimacy implore in euphoric plea.
July 18, 2021
Poem of the day on July 19, 2021
Placed 1st: A Brian Strand Rhymed Contest
Categories:
blossomed, emotions, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Unfurled Rose
“The unfurling of an alluring rose.”
She felt something gently stirring her heart
Gradually her senses flew off chart
As he caressed her soft velvety charms
Alien vibes, until held in his arms.
Steadily her inner radiance glowed
Secret special moments she'd never known
Tingling all over, from head to her toes
All her inhibitions away they'd flown.
She'd never felt passion so intently
Could it be a fairies tale, fantasy?
Truly her, igniting the world afire?
In a frenzied, ardent cocktail of desire.
The strings of her heart at last came untied
Releasing the love that she stowed inside
Alike birds on wings she flew high and wide
At last she felt free, no reason to hide.
She felt beauteous, as never before
At last she found all she’d been yearning for
The years fading away into the mist
In the romancing of a lover’s tryst.
“A rose with no joy or the will to live
Blossomed beneath her lover’s fingertips.”
6th November 2020
Categories:
blossomed, beauty, fantasy, passion, romance,
Form: Rhyme
She is hope anew now that she’s in view!
Will she – like me – feel her soul plunge to sorrow?
Or will I – like her – be until tomorrow
destiny evading. . . a wish faint and fading?
Jan. 28, 2020
For Line Gauthier's Bite Size Poem No.40 Poetry Contest
Categories:
blossomed, flower,
Form: Rhyme
A bond that had once
Long blossomed between us two,
But blossoms fall too,
As we lie beneath these trees,
Even after believing.
Categories:
blossomed, friendship love, lost love,
Form: Tanka
lips of red July
blossom through our sultry eves
to pale come autumn
Categories:
blossomed, loss,
Form: Haiku
Oft' I wonder if that old sycamore tree in the meadow yet stands,
Where as youth on languid summer days we sat holding hands;
And if our initials within a heart we engraved upon its ancient bole,
Have withstood the raging storms or, alas, hath time taken its toll.
There in our innocent youth we pledged our love for all eternity,
And etched upon our hearts that love and devotion for eviternity.
Love transcended the treacherous shoals of life through all these years;
Brought us untold joy, and yes, sustained us through our fears and tears.
Though our walk is a bit unsteady and our hair is now a silvery gray,
We still unabashedly hold each others hands and say "I love you" every day.
Lord, how I pray that old sycamore tree in the meadow yet stands,
Where our love blossomed on languid summer days as we sat holding hands.
Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
Categories:
blossomed, love,
Form: Rhyme
lotus swimming
pretty and sweet
in the stinking mud
smiling and naked
the sacred
flower
your craving lips
full and red
guarding
the pink
tongue
from
your skin wander
over mine
in love
you blossomed
sky's spacious
eyes closed
Categories:
blossomed, allusion,
Form: I do not know?
One day soon I will grow old enough
not to remember the date,day, night and season
But , my mind ... My mind would never forget that hazy afternoon
When Spring was over, yet lilacs blossomed with your return.
Categories:
blossomed, love, old,
Form: Free verse
A thousand stars gazed upon our lonely souls as we desired nothing but this moment to demand still the shadows of time.
Our hands melted as the sun softened our motions, her warm brow pressed mine.
I held her so tight her body fit like The Perfect Jigsaw.
Toes tingled as crystal winter rivers curl beneath valleys and wild forests, my faint heartbeat chimed with hers in delicate accord.
Her lips against mine our spirit burst free with the westerly winds passing softly through.
We gazed rain of pearl waterfalls stream as liquid diamonds from the bare winter branches that glistened bourbon under the ever fading evening sun.
Love blossomed early spring.
Categories:
blossomed, beauty, innocence, life, love,
Form: Prose
A Child Blossomed
I saw in your face a valley of love
Spreading as spiderwort smiling above.
I felt your devotion and saw your grace.
Oh, calming influence amid life’s place.
When sadness came near you wiped away tears.
Freely helping throughout many long years.
The strength of your memory in my heart,
Grants me the courage for each day’s new start.
A child in your hands blossomed in these lands.
Where the mountain slopes meet the oceans sands.
Wherever I go, I know you are near.
Watching from heaven, grandmother dear.
© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 25, 2010
Poetic form: Couplets
Categories:
blossomed, family, lovegrandmother, child,
Form: Couplet