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Free verse № 40675

For my wife

Member since 2002 · Posted 17 Feb 2003 · Edited 21 Apr 2003 · 15 comments

She holds me like a soft summer breeze and kisses me with a doves wing. And when we make love we hold hands and become a placid pool.

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15 comments

[8] deleted user 17-Feb-03/6:13 PM Reply
mmm dreamy.. i like it
[n/a] INTRANSIT › deleted user 17-Feb-03/6:15 PM Reply
before or after i changed the hammock?
[8] deleted user 17-Feb-03/6:16 PM Reply
ehhh i like the hammock better
[7] Shardik 17-Feb-03/6:50 PM Reply
must you mix the doves with Saturn? you'll rupture the mammal space continueum and force darwin to dry hump kubric in a swimming pool full of nestle's strawberry milk... what? lol.
[6] nentwined 17-Feb-03/9:04 PM Reply
I think I would have liked hammock better (netted swing is poetic, but I didn't get it).

this is simple and short, densely packed with common images, but... the collage is almost poignant. leans towards trite. maybe just the "ing ing ing".
[10] AuntyM 17-Feb-03/9:13 PM Reply
Beautiful. Sounds like your "both" in love.
[9] Caducus 18-Feb-03/12:52 AM Reply
Silverstem hit it, it is dreamy and enchanted, so glad you used saturn and not Uranus - beautifully done -9-
[9] Ranger 18-Feb-03/11:31 AM Reply
Good stuff
[7] Mr Pig 1-Mar-03/5:56 AM Reply
I bet your wife found this simply charming. I would however relinquish the line 'in a soft summer breeze' it serves little purpose without a metaphor. I have just read some of your other work and was impressed but owe it to you to study and pass comment on at my earliest convenience. I wish yourself and your wife many happy years of matrimony.
[8] anitawit 21-Apr-03/10:31 PM Reply
Beautiful, esp. last four lines.
[9] Ranger 22-Apr-03/10:20 AM Reply
Even better! The breeze is used much more effectively this time. 9
[7] richa 22-Apr-03/10:55 AM Reply
Lead in with gentle cliches
then bang ' a placid pool' really makes this short poem
[4] poetandknowit 31-Jul-03/6:45 PM Reply
Two sexiest things on the planet: Cars and women. YEAH BUDDY! HOOOOO YEAH!!!!!!!!! Okay now, let's bump chests and rut for the ladies! HOOOOOOO YEAH!

Oh yes, what the hell is a kiss with a doves wing? did she chop up dinner and smooch you with the feathery wing before she plucked it? Is that where she belongs? In the kitchen?

How do you become a placid pool? Do you do it oil derick fashion. bump be bump, bump be bump and then leak and form a toxic site. I amybe strecthing here, but I don't get it.
[n/a] INTRANSIT › poetandknowit 8-Aug-03/7:00 AM Reply
Why is it you can't say exactly what you want me to do? C'mon. How about some confirmation. I wanna hear it. No more ring around the roses, damnit.
[8] Jill Stockinger 28-Dec-20/5:18 PM Reply
dove's wing needs an apostrophe