- Non-Erotic Poetry
- Departure
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In the dawn's dismal light
the sighing candle glows
and, shedding warm, wax tears,
mourns the too-swift passing
of one more sleep-starved night.
Outside a dark mist clears
as my darling stirs and goes,
leaving only pillow-print
where once his head had laid,
on these sheets the sweated scent
of our bodies dealing
in lust's complicit trade,
and in my heart this gift of fears
that only love bestows.
- COMMENTS
peachesmelbaalmost 15 years agoMy ex was military and many was the "dawn's dismal light" that left my heart fearful... I cry reading this remembering those nights and mornings. Wonderful, evocative and memorable..... Thanks!
bflagsstalmost 15 years agoyou give them sapphic godhood but you didn't follow thru with capitalization. I didn't give you a fiver because of some stale images, but your other honeyed bread poem is fantastic, so I'll comment on that one here instead of over there.
WickedEvealmost 15 years agoFrom the first line down to "pillow-print" is just wonderful. You do write some lovely poetry.
normal jeanalmost 15 years agothe descriptions in your poetry. This is excellent as I have discovered, everything of yours I have read is just that, excellent.
