Photo by Lisa Michelle ArhontidisSwept Away
©Louise Gallagher
Your breath whispers
a thousand promises
swept away
my body
awakens
where your touch
measures
my pulse
pounding
passion
rises
I melt
my heart
beating
madly
against
your mouth
consuming me
laying bare
my secrets
revealed
in shadowy light
your lips
peel back
my skin
pulsing
resistance
collapses
I fall
my mind
running
wildly
into
your body
revealing
a thousand promises
breathing
down
my body
I am
swept away.
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It is another One Stop Poetry Sunday hosted by the oh so talented and creative Adam Dustus. Today's photo prompt from self-taught photographer Lisa Michelle Arhontidis is your invitation to create a poem (or Flash Fiction 55) inspired by her photo.
Go on! Give it a go. It's fun and challenging and exciting... and it just might take you out of your comfort zone into that amazing place where wonder begins and anything can happen! Click on over to One Stop Poetry and explore your imagination.
This poem is also linked through to Jingle Poetry's Poetry Potluck -- the theme of which this week is Dreams, Visions and Reveries -- there's some amazing poetry there too!
Enjoy!
33 comments:
This prompt is inspiring poets to be swept away.
I particularly like this line: "a thousand promises/breathing/down/ my body".
There's a rhythm to your minimalist lines that sounds great, carries out the whisper introduced in the first line. Love how your poem comes full circle to the title. Excellent challenge entry. Cheers :)
...and i'm swept away..
your words are fast paced and flow like a wild river...nice!
Breathtaking imagery, beautiful.
Anita.
Cool and very dreamlike! Here's mine http://thelunaticsdiary.blogspot.com/2010/12/dreams-are-never-eternal.html
oooh, I am swept away by your poem! loved it... so beautiful, vivid imagery and creative language --
"your lips peal back my skin"
and
" my mind running wildly into your body"
gorgeous writing!
Love the rhythm of waters, love, that flow within your imagery... yet feels peaceful to be swept away.
I am swept away..TOO! lovely read..how beautiful this prompt is! so much talented poets..it is really fascinating to read you all..so happy :)
Definitely an acting not talking poem--sweeping your reader along in images, emotion and surging movement. Well done. Gay
Swept away indeed! I enjoyed this...the short lines give it the feel of urgent passion. Whew. :-)
I'm rubbing ice cubes on my head. This is - a wow.
Like the form of it, the flow - the utilization of shorter lines and single words heightened the pace, sweeps you right along. Rhythmic passion, with wonderful image capture. Fine work.
i think i just melted.
hot stuff.
hello fellow Albertan!
love your poem! Imagery is hot!
Beautiful flow!
thank you
thank you for your visit and comment
take care
hi Louise!
this is cool
I'm just outside of Sylvan Lake! :)
Well... one can only exclaim....AHA Great write..!!!!!
these words have swept me away...sensually sweet
Hi Hope! We are so close! I have a cousin in Sylvan Lake -- Ed gallagher...
It's so cool to meet someone here so close.
Wow!
a yummy read! Thanks for sharing! and i love the name of your blog. i wish i could find my joy again. it seems to have gotten lost lately :(
Happy Potluck!
Kellie
Smiling at Glynn's comment and swept away by your writing.
great posting. here's mine- http://fiveloaf.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/head/
Totally swept away.....WOW!!!!
hi Louise! heard of your name but personally don't know you but you've heard of 6 degrees of separation? I'm sure we must know someone in common. :)
take care!
Swept away! That's how I felt after reading your poem. I love most the last two stanzas. Thanks!
A fantastic write - I loved the imagery that surely will keep me warm tonight!
Dear Louise
Very soft at the same time raw emotions, powerful and sensuous imagery.. I liked it so much...
Thanks for sharing...
ॐ नमः शिवाय
Om Namah Shivaya
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Glad to have you on week 13,
see you soon again...
Award/Treats 4 Poetic Friends of Jingle, Happy Thursday!
love the image, the wording is perfect and mind blowing...
thanks for your contribution..
Happy Saturday!
oh la la!
This is really great, the style is perfectly fitting.
What I like most is that it's romantic and passionate without being obscene, which is a tough line. Well done.
sensual simplicity, like it
Great work, getting lost in the moment and swept up in the passion is what it is all about. Thanks so much for sharing this with us!
nice.
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