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How do you taste a woman?

How do you taste a woman?

Do you let your breath

Take over her skin

Or do you,

Gently

Uncover

Her treacherous,

Deceitful, delightful touch?

 

Do you take her sight for granted,

As if it was yours to own,

As if she would

Never vanish,

Or do you know

She's nothing more

Than a chimera on a wall,

Than Clotho's spinning thread

In an ancient story of forgiveness...

 

Do you trust her soft and humid body,

Like a silky cloth soaked in

Spicy peppermint oil,

Or do you fear

Her lips

As if they'll

Harm the pulse

Of your easily grown

Desire for all that she has enchanted?

 

Do you let her fingers linger

Somewhere in between

The locks of hair,

As they were

Her only to poses,

And make them come alive

Like serpents shadows on a desert's moonlight?

 

All in all, a woman cannot be

Taken for granted,

As she isn't there

Only because

You see her

Near.

No.

A woman is

A passing shadow

For your mesmerized vision.

 

A woman is that summer rain

On your heated body,

Or that devastating

Storm on a

Moroccan

Desert.

She is both

Dust and wind,

Love and hatred,

Hope and despair.

She is nothing more

Than clear, cold water.

 

So drink the woman

As you taste

Water

Turned

Into good wine

And tell me, stranger...

How do you taste a woman?

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Written by
ioana-silvia-manea
Published
Apr 20, 2017
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thank you for all your comments and likes. never thought that this poem would be so appreciated. thank you again and again.

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