douglas Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 (edited) you used to make me run downstairs to the grocer's store below your apartment - after we'd made love - to buy you cigarettes and chocolate and i remember how beautifully ugly the autumnal streets of London used to look as i'd rush along the pavements from your front door litter and rusty leaves racing across the grey the brown flat expanse of the park opposite lined in the distance with the skeletal silhouettes of old English oaks and the bleak vapour trails from passing areoplanes adorning the brittle pale blue sky like the elegant patterns on your pretty Alfred Meakin bone china i'd always enter the store smiling and smelling of sex and Mr. Naidoo would always grin at me knowingly placing the 20 Silk Cut cigarettes and Lindt chocolate on the counter before i'd said a word then on the busy street again the cold air catching in my throat as i'd rush back to you ecstatically bumping into strangers as i dodged through the fruit sellers re-entering the apartment was always my favourite part the perfumed smoke from the incense the heat from the radiators The Cure playing loudly on the cd player and your outstretched tattooed arms welcoming me back into the sultry masculinity of their warm and secure embrace Edited October 18, 2010 by douglas Quote To receive love, you have to give it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aleksandra Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 Interesting piece, Doug. It seems your trip to England has inspired you as well :). This poem is very vivid, shows the mood, the atmosphere all of it. Thank you for sharing. Aleksandra Quote The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth - Jean Cocteau History of Macedonia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyv Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 Agree with Alek, Douglas. The mood, the atmosphere, the structure of the relationship -- I don't think any of it could be expressed any better. I can visualize and feel all of it perfectly. Tony Quote Here is a link to an index of my works on this site: tonyv's Member Archive topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
douglas Posted October 21, 2010 Author Share Posted October 21, 2010 (edited) thank you alex and tony for your lovely, complimentary words! it was a very passionate and vivid affair - so inspiration, memories and images flowed easily from finger to page. Edited October 21, 2010 by douglas Quote To receive love, you have to give it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lake Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 What a romantic you are, douglas. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
douglas Posted October 23, 2011 Author Share Posted October 23, 2011 i am, indeed, lake ;) Quote To receive love, you have to give it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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