Hush

Verbal assaults abound online and it can be such an ugly place to be - words contorted and shaped to hurt. It's an awful mess and nothing like I've seen before - maybe it's because we have the communications tools to carry the words or that the divisiveness of the issues we face at this point in history, is so acute?

Even my own words have been hacked by the rage and venom I feel at the viciousness of our assault on the planet, the loss of wildlife and the culpability of politicians the world over, in denying our children health, well-being and a future.

Words though have the power to heal, to soothe, to bridge divides and to draw out the good in us... just sadly there is so much noise from the abusers of words that the softer songs are hard to hear.

When I still had room for poetry in my soul, I wrote about the love and power I find in words and I barely recognise my own song anymore ...

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HUSH

Seduce me with your words
Verbs draped across my breasts
Suggest…
…anything….
just suggest
Murmur meanderings into my neck
Wreck mediocrity with a subtext
Hex spells upon me
Free spirit with prose
Expose tongue twisters to my toes
So I can feel your wet wordy lap
Tap ten digital code rap
Sap soaked in your graffiti
Defeat me, shout out
Doubt me with your mouth

Make me from your song
Long, longing belonging near
Where I can hear
Sheer seduction as you satiate
Wait …
…please…
just wait
Tense, thriller panting
Chanting rhythmic rhymes dancing
Entrancing passion advancing
Chancing whispers light breeze
Tease lips atop lips as they move
Smooth over each other
Smother the world outside
Slide into the library of us
Hush

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*Thanks Jo Lucylou for image I just 'borrowed' from your wall <3 span="">