Sunday 27 March 2011

Letters pronouncing kisses

Purse the lips and exhale the air when saying:
Where, which, what, with, whom, whether and why--
The breath of air should extinguish a candle burning.
Tantalise, titillate, scintillate, exhilarate with breath, the lips, like a sigh.

Before baffling and babbling, becoming beloved, and beaming blossom,
Peering into eyes, parting lips, pausing pleasurably, placing lips upon lips,
pulsating with passion, panting, the proof, the promise; then, as smooth as eating a plum,
Most marvellously the meeting of lips, mmmmmmmm, until touching the tongue tips.

Mouth in motion, melting, in momentum with its own miming and rhyming.
Bitter sweet; bitter the marjoram, sweet the cardamom.
Mumbling, fumbling and then the tumbling.
The tongue trembling saying renaissance romance; souls to fathom.

The rising and falling sound song of every diphthong.
Thirsty, hungry and lovelorn; kiss-drenched with love life long.

by

Quirina Roode-Gutzmer

9 comments:

  1. Love your game with words and sounds. Some lines are real alliterations - I can feel your passion for words and sounds and ... kisses, of course :)

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  2. Mmmm... love this Quirina! A gorgeous, playful game with words and sensation- but written with a serious, heartfelt passion.

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  3. Mmmm...very nice play on words Q ...as smooth as eating a plum! Love it..reminds me of a poem ~

    "And the sunlight clasps the earth
    And the moonbeams kiss the sea -
    What are all these kisses worth
    If thou kiss not me?"

    Thirsty, hungry & lovelorn? x

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  4. Hi Q,

    This is a lip tingling delight of a poem to read. I can feel the pleasure you must of had writing it, it comes out well, as I read it aloud to myself :)

    Thanks for sharing.

    Abi

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  5. Glowing, fun, and happy in such an "engaged in the now" way. Blake-ian in its revelling

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  6. Love this poem. "bitter the marjoram, sweet the cardamom" is a great phrase. Feels good on the tongue to say it.

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  7. What an amazingly gorgeous, sensuous piece of poetry...

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  8. GORGEOUS GORGEOUS GORGEOUS! Bravo, Quirina! Simply amazing. Loved it!!!

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  9. ...If thou kiss not me?" is this not John Donne ?

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