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Temptress

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-06-15

Posts 7136
Mobile, AL

0 posted 2000-03-20 03:09 AM

Mouth curved
Smile spread throughout the room
All of them wondering
Who the stranger in red is
She doesn't look the type
With that delicate face,
But that dress calls for glances
Across the room
While that demur smile entraps their senses.
A strange combination of boldness
And shyness.
She must be an illusion.
Capturing prey for that other world.

Ordering simplicity
While the bartender pours fresh intoxication
Into a tall glass for her delicious lips.
A smile and he gives it to her.
A smile and she accepts it
With a glimpse of awareness
For its content and purpose.
Crossing her legs forward
Surveying the state of the room.

Smoke rises seemingly,
From the cracks between the floorboards,
And cigarettes glow with angelic fire.
Inhabitants relish their poisons
As the fans stir the smoke.
Pool tables glow with an eery welcome,
Light cast on subjects
All looking for some mystery here.

Raising an amused eyebrow,
She watches the man in the corner,
Teaching the spirited and drunken woman,
The politics of the game on the wooden table,
Carefully demonstrating with her,
The proper position for sinking the eight ball.
Indeed she thinks...
Easy prey swallows easy prey.

Noticing glances and stares,
She but takes it all in without a word.
Thinking how the power of mystery
Is best used with silence.
Her lips passionately seize her stated drink,
As she gives her keys to the tender
Of the night.
Getting drunk, but not careless,

She remains faithful to the wordlessness.
And they all look on.
Eye contact to eye contact.
Glance to glance.
She crosses her legs and surveys the room.
Intoxicated in dim light,
Bathed in drifting curls of smoke,
As she toys with the wedding band,
On her small fingers.

Contemplation sometimes seems far worse
Does it not?

Don't gain my affections and cover my eyes. In blindness I will only swing harder.

wayoutwalt
Member Elite

since 1999-06-22

Posts 4870
TEXAS (it's all big)

1 posted 2000-03-20 03:13 AM

yuh tiz just as bad as doing it yuh in my book (the Bible) yuh steamy that was loved it i did

Another Heather
Member

since 2000-02-17

Posts 93
Canada

2 posted 2000-03-20 04:22 AM

this was a great poem temptress! i really liked the way you worded certain lines like:
"ordering simplicity, while the bartender pours fresh intoxication", "cigarettes glow with angelic fire" and "she remains faithful to the wordlessness". Great job, and I look forward to reading more!

"Be yourself... No matter what they say"
- Sting

Denise

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

3 posted 2000-03-20 08:06 PM

You've painted a vivid scene here Temptress! Very well written!

Denise

childomine
Senior Member

since 2000-01-25

Posts 818
st. petersburg, FL

4 posted 2000-03-20 08:45 PM

Yes - very well written. You have set the scene and placed the participants just right. Excellent.

...Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is!...
Black Eagle
Oglala Sioux holy man

Munda
Member Elite

since 1999-10-08

Posts 3544
The Hague, The Netherlands

5 posted 2000-03-22 03:12 PM

Way to go Temptress !Like this a lot

Good to see you again.

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