A Kept Woman
Dream-worker
delves deeply into my dream;
vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine ego quest for affaire d’amour;
her night-loving body
c h a s e d
around circular seasons
across sky-cycles of solstice and equinox
only to lose his bemusing muse
in the shadow of the sun
betrothed in throes of gravity
a calamity for lack of wings
the curse and the charm of a mad marriage;
that which binds his life-blood to Earth
guards her chaste gate to the divine
..tonight he is mine
his cresting chants enchant the timpani
of this earthy Venus --
consecrating is his spell..
spindrift a magical mist spins a mindscape
heady heart balm to soothe an ache
a rub of windswept whispers and potent physical prowess
e x e r t i o n and e x h a l a t i o n
artful is the imagination’s mastery
when surfing a rolling ridge of passion
baiting and waiting to be the object
of his misplaced attraction -
..wander-lust breakers whet my appetite..
I recline
in need of a remedy
a brunette arched in sultry spread
raven tressed but born of the lava flow
long ago a molten maiden of the volcano’s sacral chakra..
wild his seismic song!
trembling the girlish cilia
of this untamed flame-azalea
excitement mounts my marrow
and seeds my skin
unruly is the meter of his rune -
the romancer a poetic pyromancer
conjures embers of my ancient titian spirit
arousing the black pearl luster of my bed
erogenous zone glistens;
a secluded strand with carnal plans
a tryst with the king of tides
his majesty comes only with the highest rise
unleashed the penetration of his greedy grasp
against grains of glossy naked friction - grinding –
Indigo Id
silver-maned.. a savage romantic
nomadic with tantric intentions
in salacious supine
I suit the urgent roil of his royal surf
the weight of El Mar seizes the expanse of my thirst
pressing upon stroking soaking my sable sands
his yearn meets my cinders’ burn
face to face..
I but a taste bud savoring the braise of his brine
as he spills the brim
with “love the one you're with” secrets
a muscular toy doomed in the pull of a magnetic bloom;
the moonflower slowly unfurls her coy ploy
her face in phases beguile
and the fluid sensualist is foiled -
the fertile flirtations of a dreamy damsel
..her night-side-negligee slipping
from creamy skin bit by bit..
grows a queen fully ripe
honeydew nudity flaunted in pearly light
as his soulmate-swan bares her heavenly soul –
an amorous play
a drama in zodiac footlights;
a buttery moonglade
rides astride the trans-Atlantic pleasure-seeker
cosmic copulation
fraught with fate and flaw -
a slippery wraith
with the grace of Aphrodite’s cape..
an artiste as airy as a sparrow’s breath
her glittery drape but only fool’s gold —
‘tis just her pale wiles strewn across his lonely miles
a ghost of stardust-desires teasing
but not pleasing
till raven’s wings curtain the stage
and a thinned crone wanes in a shroud of meditation
I purr -- a black cat
‘neath inherited hands of hedonism
his slow-slide spurs my darkened pebbles’ shiver -
I become the drum
and succumb to thrums of percussive persuasions
aquarian conguero performs a turbulent affair of improvisation
cross-beats of crazed craves
in swollen waves and surrender
seductive the groove
just before the hard rock gyrate
as the devil’s dance
splashes a thousand cymbals of the sea
I swoon 'neath his unselfish salt of satisfaction
the unbridled thrust
of his vow-breaking must
in a state of continuous sinuous want -
lovers binge on wet undulations;
libation a liberation
a frenzy of force
when the moon is new
and hidden from view
my ebon canvas streaked a white abstract
sea spume in shapes of lipping sensations -
proof of passion in brushstrokes laid
two sides of a triangle embracing the art of eros
energy shifts
when motion is stilled
and inertia sifts
when stillness is moved
as the maiden goddess ascends
playful her invisibility to naked eyes
darkness swells undraped imaginations
and worldly realities share a wild priority
consentaneous simultaneous — momentaneous
against the certainty of eternity
over the moon
onyx sheets ripple as we ripple in symmetry
unifying if only briefly peaking
peeking at the codex of heaven’s earthly poetry
the muse of two fuse as one
tryst-talk trololo
escalates to a bow-and-violin concerto
virtuoso verse created for the ages
while we own the world
amid twilight’s twirl of a midnight’s hourglass
— then —
leaving me as I lay
a mistress mirroring the Milky Way
galaxy’s nightglow
consoles my afterglow star-crossed —
a sonnet’s couplet uncoupled
left to live on the linger of flavor
clinging to my palate
till another time
when the next page is turned
he withdraws
a coltish Romeo
in pursuit of a moonchild
sheathed in mini-skirt shine
panting for the curve
in the re-emerge of her slender crescent
his spirit a stallion blind
to the altitude of her ambition
this theatrical starlet..
the pale rose unattainable —
shy yet sly in transform from a wisp to voluptuous
before her well-rehearsed disappearance from the sky-stage
tethered to the cycle of her mystery, his mania;
the hard-drive of a frothy blue roan in full gallop
'til absorbed by the cushion of my ageless comfort -
driven-hard by the bite of the bit
the bliss of the whip reigns
at the end of her feminine reins —
a bronc bucking and rearing in relentless unrequited roam;
male of magnitude fueled to ravish
yet another distant shore
I sure as hell
envy!
Susan Ashley
July 16, 2022
~ First Place ~
Premiere Contest: A Brian Strand Premiere no 1211
Sponsor: Brian Strand
*Image by Joe Dudeck; published May24, 2021
*el mar: Spanish; the sea; a masculine noun
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