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Protection
A tiger-head tattoo
stares toward your chin
It moves when you do
lifting a cigarette
to your well indulged grin
Left arm carries the scar
under paint and ink
Some colors often hidden
between your folds and the blink
-such eyes burning orange
away from the black
No one else has lips
that can lull me right back
with the growl
of a tigress
You drop your robe
and bind your hair with a band
We make love against the sink
as you lean on one hand
-back along the mirror
Telling me to see myself now
and see what you see
a man coming unwound
The newness of us
is worn enough to release
The worry of where to allow myself
the showing of my inner peace
with you now
Sex without mental protection
Is sometimes hard to do
It's the raw edges we hid
To keep us from coming too soon
To the other's notice
That new lover's casual trace
to hold not too tightly
or else we uncover past mistakes
A tiger-head tattoo
broadens your shoulder
Or was it the weight
of a heart frozen over
heavy and colder
So I keep my hand
pressed hard against your fear
'Tho it's eyes bleed into my skin
as it's growl tempts my ear
Yet it's teeth are made of flesh
It can only rub against my skin
Still, we watch ourselves
So nothing gets within
our self relying
mental protection.
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Published 15th Jul 2022
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15th Jul 2022 4:37am
16th Jul 2022 10:15pm
15th Jul 2022 1:53pm
Outstanding write
You have a way of making lovers and words float in tension and eroticism
BIG LIKE
You have a way of making lovers and words float in tension and eroticism
BIG LIKE
16th Jul 2022 10:14pm
Thank you sir. Reading it back, I realise that it's all over the place, to me. But I don't have the thoughts on how to tighten it up right now. It was a blitz-write. Kinda like a work in progress in this "saved" folder. Lol.
16th Jul 2022 2:19am
Hey Styx,
Read this a few times over. More rhyming going on but not overly done with a poem like this.
It doesn't take away from the story or the flow of it. New lovers having a moment with a mirror.
Letting your mental protection ease enough to be vulnerable and in tune with each other.
Erotic in the best possible way:)
Love the tigress aspect of this btw!!!
Read this a few times over. More rhyming going on but not overly done with a poem like this.
It doesn't take away from the story or the flow of it. New lovers having a moment with a mirror.
Letting your mental protection ease enough to be vulnerable and in tune with each other.
Erotic in the best possible way:)
Love the tigress aspect of this btw!!!
16th Jul 2022 10:22pm
Hiya! I actually forgot that I posted this one. Lol. I was trying for the rhyme schemes within keeping the flow going, and I'm getting rusty at it.
Yes, obviously I miss Rap night at the karaoke bar. Lol.
Thanks for your keen insight on this! I appreciate it oodles and oodles much!
Yes, obviously I miss Rap night at the karaoke bar. Lol.
Thanks for your keen insight on this! I appreciate it oodles and oodles much!
19th Jul 2022 2:56am
Dear S,
I think what I like best about this piece is that it is all over the place. It replicates new love and the haphazard abandon just before we batten down the hatches and hide in the emotional hull of our minds. Almost forgot to mention I really enjoyed the imagery, the sink, the mirror, the tiger tat… kinda hot! H🌷
I think what I like best about this piece is that it is all over the place. It replicates new love and the haphazard abandon just before we batten down the hatches and hide in the emotional hull of our minds. Almost forgot to mention I really enjoyed the imagery, the sink, the mirror, the tiger tat… kinda hot! H🌷
22nd Jul 2022 1:57am
You're right, it's helter skelter. Sometimes I have too much chaos to narrow the thought processes and write it out coherently. Lol. Someday I'm going to edit and polish up my stuff. I promise myself that all the time!
And, many people have a thing for mirrors. Who cares what we look like! We create our own scenes in life and stuff. That's the good parts.
Thank you Honoria! I hope you're doing well out there in your niche of this world.
And, many people have a thing for mirrors. Who cares what we look like! We create our own scenes in life and stuff. That's the good parts.
Thank you Honoria! I hope you're doing well out there in your niche of this world.
27th Jul 2022 4:37am
Very visually pleasing. Such a pitch of sensuality, it is a good thing to reflect on. ;-)
28th Jul 2022 3:24am
28th Jul 2022 5:24pm
