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Saturday, January 11, 2020

Evening

I am brushing butter and garlic across slices of bakery bread,
but also resting my cheek in the crook of your arm
a thousand miles from here.

There is steam from a green ceramic pot
in my kitchen with sunflower fields in ruffles at the windows,
but there is also your skin as warm as a sunned quilt.

I am leaning for your lips like a willow over water,
but also standing on Italian tile
with a plate forgotten in my hand like a dove from a distant dream.
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for Sunday Muse # 90.

22 comments:

  1. AAAGGGGGHHHHHH! So perfect in mood, in resonance, that it actually hurts. Wow. This one and yesterday's follow a theme of reverie that is most beautiful. I could read a BOOK of these with such delight.

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  2. Those are the kind of day dreams that do take us far far away. This is amazingly beautiful Shay! I want another book of your prompt poems too!! "I am leaning for your lips like a willow over water"....wow, I love the comparisons of where your heart and mind are and where you stand....so perfect for the arctic fox eyes. Saying I love this is just an understatement! I adore it!!! (We both somehow ended up with doves in our poem....I thought that was cool.) :-)

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  3. Holy moly, this is incredible! Wowsie. I am in awe.

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  4. Memories have a habit of creeping up on a person while they are fulfilling the mundane duties of life. I resonate totally with this scenario filled with warm sunflowers, streams and a loving touch.

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  5. Love all the beautiful images of warmth.

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  6. Another one of those deeply feeling love poems that you write so well, Shay. Here love is the shadow cast by every a action,reflected by every object. Both warmth and longing haunt every room of this house, not ghosts so much as pure spirits of the heart. Just beautiful writing.

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  7. Blown away by the balance in this poem, every image warm and well-drawn. It's one to linger over.

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  8. Memories seem to sneak up when we least expect them and then we drift into another time and place.

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  9. The longing in this poem is so palpable, it hurts. All the mundane things of daily life creeps up on us reminding us of what we have lost.

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  10. "I am leaning for your lips like a willow over water", so filled with desire and longing... this is how love poems should be versed

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  11. Shay--I know many have said it before, but nobody writes a love poem as achingly good as you do.

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  12. You are the fox, you are the dreamer!

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  13. I am picturing a very warm kitchen - filled with wonderful food and lovely memories and dreams.

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  14. First line, third stanza - perfection.

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  15. This so moving. The images of living the everyday, doing what it requires yet reaching toward a dream as the yearning demands plucks at my heart strings. So beautiful Shay

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  16. I'm not sure my comment posted so I'm trying again. I love this poem. It takes the everyday motion we live in and pairs it with the dream reach of yearning. I can see and feel with your words. So beautiful

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  17. This is haunting, Shay. Memories bring more memories.

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  18. Stunningly beautiful - so wish I'd written this!

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  19. I think I commented, but just in case... This may be a new favorite. It is gorgeous and I wish I'd written it.

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  20. Beautiful and so very real. We've all done this, haven't we?

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  21. I see me ... not consistently mind you ... like the tarnished bell unable to ring. I love your poem.

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