So I put a lovely poem up here last Sunday, and I thought I would continue, only this time with one of my own.
This was published in February in Put Into Words, My Love: Poetry & Prose: A Petite Pomme. This little journal (available on Amazon) is the second publication from Pomme Journal, and it is a pocket-sized compendium of poems about love. Each poem is accompanied by a simple line drawing, and the book is beautiful.
Here is my contribution.
Tracts of longing
And I am loving you in this morning’s rainy strangeness,
Filled as it is with dark clouds and sunshine,
Both.
Birdsongs at 5 a.m.
And the dawn chorus of your upstairs neighbor’s footsteps,
Too early.
Your skin cool above the covers and warm below,
Fuzzy blanket and flannel sheets
Tangled around our legs
Tangled around each other.
Soon you will rise and make
Coffee sounds.
Leaving sounds.
And this lovingness of ours will linger,
In the sweetness of our scents,
Mingled in the bed,
And the way my heart’s longing reaches yours,
Even as we part.