The photo freezes
us into
this exact
instant.
Yet leaves out
the intense heat.
We locked into this
kiss forever
happening in colour
frozen in B&W.;
Curiously there are no
insects in this
photographic world.
Yet so many
on that "then."
We are at once badly
smitten & bitten.
Our friend's song
also is not
captured
as the world stops
for just that
instant.
Her naked voice
stripped of words
her vocalise
tangled amongst
sunlight and leaves.
A fingerprint in purple
paint( added years later )
is not visible
on this
day of days
a thing tangible
as a soul
made visible
in deep purple.
The photo also fails
to convey
your lip's softness
the kiss's smell
of Chardonnay & menthol ciggies.
Sweet sweat
trickling into eyes wide open
our breaths
mingling.
I take in all
the photo elects
to leave
out.
The kiss
hidden now
by death...
...the death of days
and that infamous
famous purple fingerprint.
Jun 18, 2015
Jun 18, 2015 at 7:35 PM UTC
The photo freezes
us into
this exact
instant.
Yet leaves out
the intense heat.
We locked into this
kiss forever
happening in colour
frozen in B&W.;
Curiously there are no
insects in this
photographic world.
Yet so many
on that "then."
We are at once badly
smitten & bitten.
Our friend's song
also is not
captured
as the world stops
for just that
instant.
Her naked voice
stripped of words
her vocalise
tangled amongst
sunlight and leaves.
A fingerprint in purple
paint( added years later )
is not visible
on this
day of days
a thing tangible
as a soul
made visible
in deep purple.
The photo also fails
to convey
your lip's softness
the kiss's smell
of Chardonnay & menthol ciggies.
Sweet sweat
trickling into eyes wide open
our breaths
mingling.
I take in all
the photo elects
to leave
out.
The kiss
hidden now
by death...
...the death of days
and that infamous
famous purple fingerprint.
Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14, is a song by Sergei Rachmaninoff, composed and published in 1915 as the last of his "Fourteen Songs", Op. 34. Written for high voice (soprano or tenor) with piano accompaniment, it contains no words, but is sung using any one vowel (of the singer's choosing). It was dedicated to soprano Antonina Nezhdanova.
