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Subtranslucent — between lips and palms
Published: 2006-06-15 22:13:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 290; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 5
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Description I sing soft
almost mournful
as moonlight
enters this room

wisps of smoke
curl thin against the
pale of my song

from breath blown candles

their vanilla scent
hangs heavy here

I breathe in
their demise

my hand opens
to grasp time

these fingers
entwine only darkness

grip the flesh of nothing

breaks my song
against endless folds
of a blue silk curtain

that flows inward with
the transparent breeze

a glimpse of moon
caught amidst the billow

I press lips to palms
and send a kiss

float it towards
the moon
and
you

c.2003
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Comments: 7

judylee [2007-02-17 15:19:32 +0000 UTC]

Such beauty and longing so simply and beautifully said. I love word pictures and you have really captured me with this one!

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Subtranslucent In reply to judylee [2007-02-18 15:17:57 +0000 UTC]

Thank you much.

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judylee In reply to Subtranslucent [2007-02-18 15:31:38 +0000 UTC]

my pleasure it touched me

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Orchid-Black [2006-07-24 05:08:16 +0000 UTC]

You have such amazing imagery in your writing... it makes me want to write more often to see if I can get the same poignancy.

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Subtranslucent In reply to Orchid-Black [2007-02-18 15:18:10 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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DrowningByWords [2006-06-15 23:12:32 +0000 UTC]

an instant fave
one of the bst you've evr written
truly beautiful

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Subtranslucent In reply to DrowningByWords [2007-02-18 15:19:43 +0000 UTC]

Thank you belatedly

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