utopia: from Gk. ou “not” + topos “place.”*
An Ideal State
to feel your heart-
beat ripple
across both
our bodies
as the moon-
light ripples
through the leaves
to smell your breath
and have you
wrap your arms
like a mantle
across my shoulders
to have our
sweat mingle
in rivulets
and our bodies blaze
like candles flames’
for one last light
For more poetry which may or may not be about “no place,” head on over to be present, be here, where Liz is hosting the last formally organized Poetry Thursday Traveling Poetry Show.*utopia. Dictionary.com. Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/utopia (accessed: October 03, 2007).
And may I just say, a site dynamically generating its own citations is awesome!
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“to have our
sweat mingle
in rivulets
and our bodies blaze
like candles flames’
like the expressiveness of this piece a lot
Thanks! -tom
“one last light’
I seem to be caught by last lines today.
Hopefully the lines will throw you back instead of cooking you! -tom
this was stellar.. the whole thing… just beautiful.. i am so happy if finally got over there to read it!!!!
Thanks for making it over! And for the kind comments. -tom