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Sample Poems from "Safe Arms: 20 Love & Erotic Poems" Full Grown Know This Secret My Mardi Gras Full Grown hair on a woman’s fingers & forearms blues crocheted into sun-up cradle song I suck my thumb stretch my baby hands wishes hum in my palms a woman’s unshaven legs my nipples become aching candles I close my eyes sway to drone welling from center of my chosen appetites hint of a mustache thick eyebrows my breaths fuse full underarms treasure below exposed navel my sex arcs my hallucinations whimper face down in sweat-scented roots beard lost within untamed blending sliding cheek along curving ankle licking wayward strands framing naked toes hand tangled up in breathtaking veil hair on a woman’s body blurs my oldest incoherence stirs incandescent my my my I faint standing up Know This Secret she laugh sweep away my sins wet my name hairs flicker up & down my arm dare me with a silly wink I can't hide love maybe I'm sweeter than I think if she let me in her life her body if all this naked seeking bouncing 2 lovers' frequency off satellites short circuit everybody's pagers maybe I'm spilling secrets best left to summoning dusk or taunting sunrise if I tell you she welcome on my lap legs yawning head thrown back seizure rippling her face mouth a perfect circle breath a hypnotizing hush spine arching in limbo telepathy steal her from gravity's arms guide her whiplash back home fever mold satin against my chest sob splash in my face tears glisten on my mustache faith suspend us on shivering arms nothing between us but incandescence I sink into her geometry touch magnetize skin weld hips suffocate cool collapse dusk into sunrise time become a wistful peeping tom braiding his fingers into a sizzling wick licking sweat off these moments with no shame who don't want to know this secret born in laughter silly as cartoon TNT serious as sex at high noon on a Sunday without prayer religion or sin My Mardi Gras she my Mardi Gras everyday festival when she take off her mask her loving is the coup de grace she my Mardi Gras everyday Shangri La after we dance in the streets we come home to hallelujah breathtaking revelry standing still we sway one touch begins a parade she my Mardi Gras hallelujah hallelujah she my Mardi Gras loving Is the coup de grace everyday we come home to Shangri La return to top |
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