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Blue Rose

This morning is a picture postcard of our first ****

Sweaty and enclosed

a symbolic fan dawdles slowly

over our youthful bodies;

Velvet with electricity.

 

I can still feel the starch strength of your hair,

read the invitation on your lips

(the only novel written solely for me)

and ignore the gooseflesh as I recall the magic of

your perfume from the deepest, darkest past.

 

Your mystery was forged out of the shade

which followed early mornings,

cool like gold covered ice,

sometimes we drank the Sun's wine

from the Sun's cups

and your ******* were bared to the sleeping city

pale and luminous as two alien moons

while overhead the early birds sang their song.

 

Now you live in the future,

as so many others do,

and I am left here;

with a faded blue rose

who's perfume has fled and now smells of old velvet.

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Written by
lysander-gray
Australian
Published
Dec 28, 2012
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