- Non-Erotic Poetry
- empty space
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"Did you know that all of this
empty space
was once an ocean?"
It was vast,
wasn't it?
now, only
a ship graveyard waits
forgotten, it's jagged pain
cradled
in my rib's embrace
the smiling masts
(which punctured my heart)
have turned scornful
and brood
over absent sails
and absent winds
and the wide mouths
gaping from rotting hulls
groan and sigh
toward distant whale call
they will never replicate
or answer.
"No, I never knew it was full of life."
but, I suppose
I always held crumbling
fishbones and fossils
between fervent kisses, and tasted
the rusty husks of anchors
on the tips of your fingers
- COMMENTS
simply__mealmost 13 years agothat are mentioned below, this is good. I might add, look at something besides jagged. It's another word I seem to read often (and use!). I like the way the title sets this poem up.
twelveoonealmost 13 years agocame back
can we find another word for "fervent" has to be one of the top ten overused words in Literotica
twelveoonealmost 13 years agothis is one of those poems, that needs to sit with me. Right now the only thing I can come up with, is consider changing and to of, (of absent winds). Strange and intriguing. A5. Consider:
and wide mouths
gape from rotting hulls
groan toward distant whale call
Play with this, I like this.
