YOU: A Poem of Loss & Longing via a prompt from Magpie Tales

This poem would be more potent without the image, but as this is a Magpie Tales image prompt, I will let you in on the secret.  I am imagining performing this poem in the near future. It felt enlivening to write. THANK YOU, Tess, for your ever inspiring prompts. To those of you who have never heard of Magpie Tales, click here to see the prompt and to play alongside a group of gifted poets.

YOU

February, 2010

Exact date, forgotten

So long since

I have felt your

Gentle acrid kiss

Upon my lips

I’m not unsettled

At the thought of you

Anymore

But somehow

Tonight

I long to hold you

And feel your

Caress on my chest

Your warm wetness

Welcoming me

Once again

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 © 2012 by Julie Jordan Scott

Comments

[Moe Lauher]

Beautiful -

[Berowne]

Moving, very well written...

[Shers]

Gentle, acrid kiss...the kiss of a smoker. I don't miss the stench. But your poem is a tender reminiscence.

[Other Mary]

But somehow
Tonight...

Well penned, that miserable feeling.

[Helen]

Vivid words .... so well done!

Happy New Year!!!

[Theresa Milstein]

I was moved too.

Favorite line: Gentle acrid kiss

[Tess Kincaid]

Sexy...