Her skin drinks light like rivers take rain,
each dappled edge and sun-struck curve,
a landscape under my hands, soft yet severe,
where desire meets the edge of breath.
Fingers trace the small hollows of her hip,
catching sunlight in each soft valley,
dipping, trembling, as if they might slip
into some dark, endless tenderness.
She is a map of quiet fires,
a fever I can barely hold.
I find her pulse in the hush of thighs,
the places where words lose themselves.
My mouth opens to meet her skin,
each kiss a tender bruise of ache,
pressed and perfect, lush as wine
that fills, that floods, till reason splits.
We break where passion's blinding flares,
colliding in waves of sweet surrender,
so fierce the ache it stings like glass,
we drink of each other, ravenous, undone.
In the silence after, breath upon breath,
her skin still glows with sunlit trace,
and I am carved by the strength of her
in places I never knew could break.
Categories:
ravenous, desire, kiss, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
The raven loosened up his belt
and had himself a patty melt.
“Don’t eat so much”, I did implore
As he spat out an apple core.
Quoth the raven, “I’ll have some more.”
Categories:
ravenous, bird, food, raven,
Form: Rhyme
Jen the human race is in a rush!
Still...
You remain serene
Like the heavenly masterpiece
Painted by God's glorious Brush.
Categories:
ravenous, allusion, christian, creation, god,
Form: Rhyme
When I sing I sound like a prehistoric creature
Fending off attackers, defending each metre
A scary old fellow
As I screech and bellow
So beware my friends I'm a ravenous eater
Categories:
ravenous, death,
Form: Limerick
When I sing I sound like prehistoric creature
Fending off attackers, defending each metre
A scary old fellow
As I screech and bellow
So beware my friends I'm a ravenous eater
Categories:
ravenous, fate,
Form: Limerick
RAVENous
Wickedly,
dressed in black satin,
corseted with passerine-ego —
she dares
the dawn to interrupt her feast,
afterall, SHE is the Queen!
beheading of the smallest of things,
the nibble of opportunity.
Vast is she, the moonlit sentinel,
fearsome in flight as her ebony cape
flaps open like the grim reaper — ripe,
as she lurks over the lintel.
He who tenders
money, braving twelve last straw dings
of the towering clock,
caterwauling about a nagging wife,
a no-good son.
No mercy
for the ungrateful,
she abandons berries and grains
for a heartier steal -
an alcoholic’s swansong.
7/7/2019
Categories:
ravenous, bird,
Form: Free verse
Let go of all your inhibitions
lay your head upon my chest
listen to my heart pang for you
and let my fingers do the rest
slowly moving across your body
tingling inside with your every need
entranced this new found adoration
ravenous, all night, they'll feed
Categories:
ravenous, love,
Form: Romanticism
Ravenous rats in our lives
Determined to nibble the nipples
Stabbed by knives
Cutting tenuous triples in ripples
Undulating and ululating
In horror
At the humiliating and excruciating
Error and terror
Erstwhile partners and associates
Commit or omit
To implicate affiliates
Whose remit
Captures, raptures and sutures caverns
Embedded deep within bowels, dowels, towels, trowels and vowels of the Earth
Away from testing and truculent taverns
Where felt, unleashed wrath
Against ravages rodents havoc wreak
In the calm we covet
Even when we struggle up the creek
And services of a vet
We seek, click and tweak
In our endeavor
To kick, tick and stick
Into the peace favour and flavor
Singled out as the linchpin
Enmeshed
In a twin pin whose sapience spin
Bashed, crushed, slashed and trashed
In burrows dug by ravenous rodents
Ferocious and noxious
Whose complicit correspondents
In spite of behavior fractious
Slump and succumb
To energies injected in the strategy
Ensuring ravenous rodents run numb
As triumphant emerge our deployed and employed synergy.
Categories:
ravenous, poems,
Form: Free verse
you’re an obsession driving me insane
from daybreak on through my dreams
longing to taste your lips
AP: Honorable Mention 2021
Posted on March 24, 2018
Categories:
ravenous, desire, dream, kiss, longing,
Form: Kimo
When I sing I sound like prehistoric creature
Fending off attackers, defending each metre
A scary old fellow
As I screech and bellow
And on top of that I'm a ravenous eater
Categories:
ravenous, fantasy,
Form: Limerick
Ravenous thief
infiltrating the depth
of our souls
stealing from us the eyes
of our children
silencing the joy
of their smiles
demanding a ransom
for each moment
Chameleon curse
mutating in the midst
of battle
clandestine coward
seeking escape
within the ruins
of the ravaged
Unwelcome usurper
draining life
cowering at the sight
of a pink ribbon
deafened by the sound
of love’s footsteps
shuddering at the scent
of whispered wishes
trembling at the touch
of hope’s embrace
haunted by the roar
of our silent prayer
John G. Lawless
9/13/2015
Categories:
ravenous, cancer,
Form: Free verse
Ravenous Flames
Such beautiful, writhing creatures,
devouring the wind that nurtures.
The one element darkness fears.
Their hypnotic invitation;
drawing curious creation...
"Our hunger to fill, come closer."
Tasting prey with tongues that ignite;
morphed to serpants, striking night..
Once succombed, quickened flames now leer.
Arlene Smith
Contest: LIGHT A FLAME!
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
June 11, 2014
Categories:
ravenous, fire,
Form: Rhyme
Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Ravenous
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: June/1986
Soon,
their want be
mountains, valleys,
rivers,
or hills -
For
the ravenous
ones
will gorge,
and
swallow up
the surely raw
simplicity
of
nature -
Craving
and
greed
as a whole,
will not
fill
their
stomach's -
The
beast within
will
hunger
for more,
until
the forest
become
forest-less,
Until
it's
thirsty throat
become
famished,
depriving
the land
of
all it's
resources -
When
will it
end?
Soon,
their want
be
mountains, valleys,
rivers,
or
hills -
Categories:
ravenous,
Form: Light Verse
Escaping the darkness
With the wings of an Angel
Salvation is only a step away
However fleeting the moment is
It haunts me in my dreams
The screaming will never cease
She moves in my thoughts
Like water through a ravine
Clean, pure, fluid
She can’t be stopped
The drums beat to war
An army is needed to defend the gates
A bleeding heart epic
Just another way
It’s time to deliver
Now I live for today
Categories:
ravenous, angst, art, dedication, depression,
Form: I do not know?
Dewdrops kiss flowery cups and grass shoots
beetling from comatose roots.
Sun smiles with lustrous rays
encouraging poised winds
to blow redolent
arousing scents;
enticing
bug life
back.
Copyright © 2011 By Caryl S. Muzzey
Categories:
ravenous, nature
Form: Nonet
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