Short Sensate Poems

Sympathy

Sympathy of violins,
Sensate sliding of heartstrings.
Canorously caressing.
Like cherry brandy - feels good.
The warmth spreads, like a prayer shawl.

Fermata holds on too long...

10/2/2017
Early October Premier Contest

*Fermata - prolonging a musical note
**Prayer - with 1 syllable...

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Elephantine
Slow motion measures
out of time
in pace
Great go-between
grows notions
in lines 
and space
Eglantine
embows fragrant pleasure
springtime's
embrace
Mezzanine
bon mot for half measure
lying low
in place
Intervene
plover distraction
displeasure
paradigm
about face
Serene
glow sensate pleasure
time felt
with grace


Written 16 May 2020
posted 19 July 2020

''Eglantine'' - a wild rose....

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Some sensate specks of dust ponder
on this side of Infinity, they wonder:

        Is it probable or even just possible
        that millions of years to you and me
        are but a millisecond to someone else?

        Can there be, aside from us here,
        other intelligent beings on planets
        swirling down milky galactic wells?

Other specks of dust likewise wonder
at the other end of Infinity, they ponder....

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"Sensate"



In the blue hours
silky fingers trace lines
intuitively 
along the curving roads

a mysterious map 

uncharted territory
flames of blue 
kiss and burn along
the road home

She is braille
He is Sensate


(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)





“Blue Monday” / Flunk
https://youtu.be/vyjNCFje8bc












1. Sensate

2. Intuitive...

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