When Pheromones Took Breath Away (from The Faces of Love)

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Open Poetry #48

When Pheromones Took Breath Away (from The Faces of Love)

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

0 posted 2012-10-19 07:27 PM

When Pheromones Took Breath Away
(from The Faces of Love)

I would be as a virgin butterfly
lazily soaring in the air,
sunlight warming night cooled wings,
unaware of pheromone trails
taking breath away -

I would be a touch of lace
shadowing bare flesh above my heart
so your eyes could guess,
but not quite see,
the hint of  flesh exposed -
naked flesh,
come alive
in the morning sun.

I would give your hand
the warmth of gentle touch
in places  no eye but mine has seen,
and share with you a passion
that would make even angels,
shyly avert their gaze.

I would love you in such a way
we'd blind the stars
with the light we made,
just as we did so long ago,
in the youth of our days,
before age
took so much away.

I'll  hold your hand,
look you in the eye,
tell you I love you ,
even now, as I did then -

it's only the flesh,
the years have slowed.

Inside, the fires still rage,
the passion flares
and I'm still that butterfly
who fell in love that sunlit day,

when pheromones took breath away . . .

even, now, as then,

as pheromones
take my breath away . . .

© wesley james beard, jr. (rv)
   october 19, 2012

[This message has been edited by jwesley (10-19-2012 08:13 PM).]

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

1 posted 2012-10-20 01:14 PM

hello jwesley, i like the correlation with pheromons, and the differences between inside and outside, nicely done, well written, thanks

yann

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2012-10-21 10:06 AM

Ah, I hear you, J., those darn pheromones just will not leave us be, and thank goodness for that. Sometime these pheromones assault me threefold and then some.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

r v wooo
Senior Member

since 2007-08-07

Posts 656

3 posted 2012-10-21 01:37 PM

Hmmm, the chemicals of attraction compel me to react...sometimes, automatically...makes me wonder...do I really experince freewill or am I in need of outside control in the "civilized" world of man. Interesting poem...

Victoria

Member Ascendant

since 2000-08-12

Posts 5869

4 posted 2012-11-01 12:09 PM

Something mysterious about chemical attraction. Sometimes its just a glance or a smile but then you kick yourself for not being more aggressive.

~Victoria~

"If music be the food of love, play on." (William Shakespeare)

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