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jwesley
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Spring, Texas

0 posted 2013-02-10 09:51 AM






Disheveled
(from Faces of Love)



Just made up the bed . . .

yeah, no hiding where my thoughts were:

like where the two pillows overlapped,
or where the slightly over-sized depression
in the foam pillow of the mattress
still shows,

or how the top sheet seemed to gather
towards the center -
never mind the covers
all kicked down to the foot . . .

or the night-clothes
disheveled,
sort of
here and there,
as if thrown in haste.

The sheet I straightened first,
pulling it
corner to corner,
smoothing it with my hand,
seeming to feel a lingering warmth,
not really there,
but felt just the same,

the scent of you
rising in the air I stirred.

The pillows I replaced
just as they were,
a message,
for tonight,

the bed clothes
I put out of sight,
something I hoped
you'd understand.

And the top-sheet
under which you
lovingly called my name,
I was tempted to leave
just as it were,
gathered
in the shape of us,

but I laid it,
along with the covers
over-top of all,
encompassing you and me
in last nights
embrace,

a harbinger
of things to come.

I made the bed,
a moment ago. . .

but I lived
the passion
that mussed it so.





© wesley james beard, jr.
february 9, 2013


© Copyright 2013 Wesley James Beard, Jr. - All Rights Reserved
JerryPat2
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1 posted 2013-02-10 10:26 AM


Excellent thoughts as you smoothed out the wrinkles and overlapping sheets into a semblance of purity. Enjoyed this . . .

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

Victoria
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2 posted 2013-02-10 10:37 AM


Sounds like a bad hair day to me...lots of passion going on Jimmy...Enjoyed.

~Victoria

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Confucius

Alison
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3 posted 2013-03-10 12:57 PM


Damn. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this.  That's all I have to say about this.

A

Honeybunch
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since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
4 posted 2013-03-10 05:48 AM


What a amazing poem you have written around the mundane chore of making up a bed.  Wish I could have similar thoughts when making mine but life is what life is.  Enjoyed!

Helen  

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