Disheveled (from Faces of Love)

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Open Poetry #48

Disheveled (from Faces of Love)

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
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

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

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

Member Ascendant

since 2000-08-12

Posts 5869

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

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

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
Member Rara Avis

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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