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Touch her chine
Feel the cracks
And the curls

Breathe her in
The scented earthy smell

She’ll tell you stories
Trap you in worlds
With her words

With time
Her pricy smooth exterior 
Will be fissured aged leather
But loving attention
Gives her lines to smile
And she’ll never lose
Her enticing allure

She’ll leave you
Feeling that you’ve
Finished with her
But you’ll be left lonely
In your own head
Yenning for her 
To weave you
More wonders
She’s temptress
She’s liar
She’s wisdom
She’s universe
She’s limitation
She’s an opinion
Or a truth

She is a book ❤️

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 Apr 2020 Sue Collins
More Love
Today is one day
Just like the rest,
But unlike the others
It is here
Now.

Unlike tomorrow,
It holds the promise
Of existence.

And unlike yesterday
It provides opportunity
For change.

Today, her majesty
Is all we have.

When we salute her sunrise
And give way to her glory.

The shadows of yesterday
Come to rest
And the worries of tomorrow ease

And today opens her royal gates
To let in the living.
 Apr 2020 Sue Collins
Redaviel
A family with color and sound and warmth
Becomes a monotone paradise of silence
When the walls aren't cared for
When the windows are always kept closed
And people forget to put wood in the fireplace
Dusty ceilings, slippery floor, unheard feelings,
Withered plants, column of ants, tattered pants
And you wonder why the sun doesn't shine anymore
 Apr 2020 Sue Collins
ryn
It bears a secret,
so immense and heavy,
it’s worth a thousand keys.

And laden like a million treasures -
all locked in a lone chest.

To write of it,
taboo.
To speak of it,
blasphemous.
But a taste of it,
heavenly bliss.


So I bear its secret...
One that paints grandeur
and weighs a lifetime.
And it’s worth my every breath.
 Apr 2020 Sue Collins
Zywa
The postcard, growing yellow
for so long

No contact
I don't have an address
to do anything about it

Besides, said in thoughts
my words are silting up
with caution

We only share the wind
that covers us

with sand from South
pollen from East, rain from West
and from North the cold comes

Then I pull a sweater
over my heart, stroke
with my fingers

on my one belly
thinking of your hands
Collection "Pending rain"
 Apr 2020 Sue Collins
S Smoothie
Kiss the sky,

Only don't

Touch the curves and edges,

Only don't

Share a breath on a heartbeat,

Only don't

Snuggle tight in the driving wind,

Only don't

Trace words of love on each others lips,

Only don't

Break my heart
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