Taste of Milk and Honey's Wednesday's word was bottle. I must have something to get out because the last three words: drink, slay, and bottle, have all brought me back to the same topic. I shied away from it the first two words, but the third one, I feel like I have no choice but to face it and get something out, whatever that may be. This is the result:
If you pour from that bottle
what do you think will happen?
Will your lips, tongue, bloodstream, then brain receive that initial flood, that impulse?
Will you sip, swallow
lingering in the comfort of
its friendship, its confidence, its assurance
that you are okay, yeah, I'm feeling good now
Limber in mouth and hips?
If you pour from that bottle again, will you recall
the clarity, bright as the stars on a crisp, cloudless winter's night
your heart, open like a window in the first breath of Spring
your thoughts, shining like the sun as it glints off the warm waves of the Pacific
the beauty of you - untouched, unscarred, unadorned by the falsity of it all?
Will you? Will you?
you are indeed a poet! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Tina:) I love that you read my first poetry:)
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