#bathe
Fountainhead
by Michael R. Burch
I did not delight in love so much
as in a kiss like linnets’ wings,
the flutterings of a pulse so soft
the heart remembers, as it sings:
to bathe there was its transport, brushed
by marble lips, or porcelain,—
one liquid kiss, one cool outburst
from pale rosettes. What did it mean ...
to float awhirl on minute tides
within the compass of your eyes,
to feel your alabaster bust
grow cold within? Ecstatic sighs
seem hisses now; your eyes, serene,
reflect the sun’s pale tourmaline.
Published by Romantics Quarterly, Poetica Victorian, PW Review, Nutty Stories (South Africa), Inspirational Stories, Poetry Life & Times
Keywords/Tags: Fountain, love, heart, pulse, bathe, kiss, sun, marble, bust, tides, sighs, eyes, sun, tourmaline
Mar 16, 2020
Mar 16, 2020 at 6:03 AM UTC
#*The Iguazu falls
Swifts slow dance through the waterfalls
Sun their wings on cliffs*#
Jan 21, 2019
Jan 21, 2019 at 9:10 AM UTC
The sun is shining, we poets are rhyming.
Others might be out to bathe, but we fill our sheets with creative parts.
This is a thirty second writing, as I am freestyling the way I am diving.
Aug 6, 2018
Aug 6, 2018 at 6:14 AM UTC
>My lover and I make a crime scene every night. But every night, we walk away with more blood on our hands. Not victimless, but witnessless.
_tell me what this carnal discourse is. tell me i can wash it off. tell me i can forget._
>But no, the world murmurs back to me, no, you get to bathe in it. And then, just when you feel anew, you will open your eyes to a lake of lost lovers.
Jul 30, 2018
Jul 30, 2018 at 4:41 PM UTC
And when the time comes my tears won't be falling like rain for it will be warm tea and fresh honey streaming down my cheeks.
I hope one day I will bathe in sunflowers and new love - I'm tired of the dead leaves that burden my body, they soak in like fresh coconut on my skin.
I sit underwater where time stops for a second, and I am at peace. I hope one day I can run into rushing waterfalls without begging for that moment of altered reality. I hope one day I bathe in roses instead of my sorrows.
Jul 1, 2018
Jul 1, 2018 at 11:10 PM UTC
You wanna break my mind,
You wanna tear me up,
Don't know know what you will find,
In my remains but guts.
You wanna break my heart,
You wanna tear me down
But I will rise up high
With a powerful sound
You wanna break my soul
You wanna tear me apart
Up to know you don't know
That I have a pure heart
You wanna break my spirit,
You wanna take it all
Well, but you just don't get it
I'll get up when I fall (eventually).
Jan 15, 2018
Jan 15, 2018 at 7:59 PM UTC
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I bathe you with my tears of love,
Hoping that it will overflow,
And that someday,
It will sail you next to me.
© Earl Jane
♥ E.J.C.S.
Jan 16, 2017
Jan 16, 2017 at 4:46 PM UTC
Success? Oh-ho!
You can’t just dabble in it, boy.
You need to bathe with it.
Wash your hair in it.
Spread it on your sandwiches.
Buy expensive jewelry for it.
Name your firstborn after it.
Don’t let psychoanalysts talk you out of it.
Tell everyone you know you have it.
Jump when it says jump.
And remember, at night!
When you and success are alone,
never close your eyes
to make sure it doesn’t sneak off
to embrace someone
more successful than you.
Sep 8, 2015
Sep 8, 2015 at 3:34 PM UTC
we took a shower together
it was fun feeling you slimy
and gripping into your wet hair
with your provocative chest in my control
i was passing these hands
upon your lower back
placing fingers between your lines..
you kissed me..felt like you missed me
those lips with no make up
could be my favorite flavor
..we took a shower together
we should do it again
Jan 21, 2015
Jan 21, 2015 at 1:48 AM UTC
Wash me with your love
Let it bubble with passion
Mend my broken heart
Help me make a new start.
Pour your warm gentle words
Let them heal my wounded soul
Cleanse me inside out
See what is still left of me.
Pat me dry with your embrace
Wrap your arms all around me;
Hold my heart gently,
Stop it from bleeding;
Kiss away my tears,
Stop my eyes from crying.
Wash away my pains from the past,
Fill in all the hollowed parts of me,
With your love,
Let me be renewed.
Feb 12, 2015
Feb 12, 2015 at 8:21 PM UTC