Thursday, April 7, 2016

wearing wine barrels and writing poems


wearing wine barrels, writing poems

quoting phrases no one coined

i reach that moment in the dance

where touch just needs a circumstance

 

spin and twirl, boy and girl

whatever makes your flag unfurl

find the beat that’s on repeat

sweat on the floor and on the sheets

 

hold my hand then hold my form

lace your lips with chloroform

lather, rinse and then repeat

let us dry within the heat

 

dance floors dream of closing time

poets dream of perfect rhymes

so while we can before the ban

help me redeem the fall of man

 

not for paradise regained

cause back then things were not the same

lest a grain of wheat fall and die

it can’t bring forth the butterfly

 

but back then nothing died at all

a different world of protocol

where dance floors and “your place or mine?”

were not part of the grand design

 

so let the morning beat the shades

these rumpled sheets that we have made

will be our spot upon this earth

where in your arms i find my worth

let’s linger in this couplet rhyme

till i’m more than your “in-the-mean-time”

 

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