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unboundpoetess
Member

since 2008-05-24

Posts 477

0 posted 2009-10-09 09:46 PM

you bare your storms to me

I lash against the currents
and you give me your back

foundations shift
did we not build
upon the stones

the pull of grains from the shore
where sails have failed proud ships
their masts a heaving sigh
of grief and heavy waters

I sip at your drowning
and break over you

crash on heaving shoulders
where there is no salvage
from the bone littered depths
of fathers, sand and covenants
smashed in sick christening
against the fragile bow

abandonment wails on bipolar winds
that my woman's hands fall through
stumbling to gather frailty
aboard ghost ships of men
where the gravity of boys
haunt the very timbers

should my lips ever set the flames
we will scatter them
even from their rotting boards
the graves can claim their ashes
and we will tread beyond the pyre

I will give you my back
if you are man enough to bend me
and dwell in my heart places
where kisses are balm

and my love
will pour you into vessels

unshattered

H

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

1 posted 2009-10-09 10:58 PM

There are so many lines I could copy... it's all superb!!

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

2 posted 2009-10-10 09:57 AM

This is very beautiful and so intense! I love how you used the
elements of the ocean to capture the emotion of love and heartbreak.

It's always so nice to read you, good poetess~

dickpoetry
Member

since 2009-09-30

Posts 89

3 posted 2009-10-10 11:28 AM

very pretty

brneyedgrly
Senior Member

since 2009-06-08

Posts 1125
nowhere and everywhere

4 posted 2009-10-10 12:23 PM

it's beautiful girly

unboundpoetess
Member

since 2008-05-24

Posts 477

5 posted 2009-10-10 01:43 PM

sweet suthern~
Thank you so very much! I appreciate you.

Blues~
It's always so nice to have the treat of your replies! TY : )

dpo~
Appreciate the pretty, thanks.

Shel~
Thanks for reading sweets!

L,
H

Dark Stranger
Member Patricius

since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

6 posted 2009-10-11 07:28 AM

ms UBP..you reveal much in your words
and yet you keep them covered with gauze..enjoyed it

unboundpoetess
Member

since 2008-05-24

Posts 477

7 posted 2009-10-11 09:29 AM

Thank you for commenting, dearest D.

H

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

8 posted 2009-10-14 08:31 PM

H-Fly me from your flag mast, my lady! ~L

GBride
Senior Member

since 2009-07-02

Posts 538

9 posted 2009-10-15 11:10 PM

My, what a talent you have!

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

10 posted 2009-10-15 11:53 PM

Beautiful piece my friend...I very much ejoyed reading it....

j.

viking_metal
Senior Member

since 2007-02-02

Posts 1337
In a Jeep, Minnesota.

11 posted 2009-10-16 12:38 PM

I would like to offer you a new home on rocks and stuff. i have a jeep that can climb on them.
stumbling to gather frailty
aboard ghost ships of men
where the gravity of boys
haunt the very timbers
awesome poem. I'm thoo-row-lee impressed.

I love my dog, and my truck. It's that simple, really.

martiniat8
Senior Member

since 2003-06-21

Posts 897
Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic

12 posted 2009-10-16 03:30 AM

WHEW! So, powerful!

unboundpoetess
Member

since 2008-05-24

Posts 477

13 posted 2009-10-16 11:22 AM

Hope you are wearing your Sunday best bloomers *hoistsLori* : ) Thank you, dear!

GBride, thank you for your kind reply.

J, thank you for your kind heart words. I appreciate you!

Paul, I am awaiting my carriage to more solid ground. Jeeps rule.

M8~ That whew of your is deeply appreciated.

Love,
Heather

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