Tuesday, 21 May 2013

The chase


         I snuff out the candles in our room.
It is the time:  a forest awaits
for a hunt, breathless, under our bare feet.  
         Moonlight blazes above the sky,
         stormy as your eyes.

        In my dream before reality,
I am the hunted wolf  & you, the hunter.
You scent me better than the hounds,
        grounding me, my heart beating
        louder than my legs.

        You take your knife, slicing
me open like an offering, our bread. 
There is the taking & the giving-     
        as I burn, sliding down
        your throat like wine, feral & heady.

        Soon a heart
grows underneath my ribs.   Pulses  
and stretches like branches, into a tree.       
        My eyes hold your whispered awe, 
        tender  as  spring.

        We chase 
again.   But  I  do  not      let        you 
find    me          easily
                                        this       
                                                       time.




Posted for:   D'verse Poets Pub: OpenLinkNight - Every Tuesday, starting at 3 pm EST. Thanks for the visit ~ 

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49 comments:

  1. the part with the heart is lovely, Grace

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  2. I love the part about the heart growing but most especially, I love the last delicious verse.

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  3. oh my...i need a shower...smiles...wonderful imagery...love the moonlight blazes...and then the sensuality you bring out in the hunt and kill...whew....and you end with the playfulness...very cool verse grace

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  4. A dirty rhyme popped in I will avoid it at your bin, sure quite the sensual hunt too, one that sure wouldn't make one blue

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  5. Magical and sensual, beautifully penned Grace.

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  6. You capture passion like nobody else...I'm awed as always.

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  7. oh my goodness... i'm kinda breathless...dang it...so sensual...

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  8. This is so sensuous. Loved this. Yes, make them chase you harder next time.

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  9. Sensual and vivid--it does sort of take my breath away--

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  10. I love the passionate and sexy side to this Heaven, like each of them hunting for each other, invokes powerful images in my head.

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  11. Oh this was hot.. especially like the hiding in the end... not as easy this time.. this was just a wonderful read... before I head of to bed..

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  12. Lovely, Grace....the seeking, the finding, and the eluding. Love the sensuality, the passion!

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  13. Oh, the thrill of the chase ... passionately and wonderfully described, Grace.

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  14. goodness....no one writes sensual poetry as magically as you Grace..love that image of a heart
    pulses and stretching like branches into a tree. just mindblowing, this~

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  15. Yummy and steamy!

    -Christopher

    www.HeadenElite.org

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  16. The chase is often more fun than the catch. Wonderful passion here, raising the temperature in the room!

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  17. This pounds with passion! Great writing as usual Grace!

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  18. delicious chase!

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  19. This left me breathless and wanting more...Sensuous with a capital S!~jackie~

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  20. Yowsa. Sensual and evocative with a hint of the surreal.

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  21. "You scent me better than the hounds,
    grounding me" and this spoke to me Grace... beautiful!

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  22. Lovely...actually, a WoW...
    my favorite part:

    "Soon a heart
    grows underneath my ribs. Pulses
    and stretches like branches, into a tree."

    WoW writing.
    Peace,
    Siggi

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  23. A beautiful sensous and passionate write.

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  24. "stormy eyes" and "more easily this time"
    are thrilling, maybe because of the consensual fright in between.

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  25. I live in an apartment block when I am in town.We share a common wall. I have neighbours who chase moan and shriek fortissimo. Maybe I should slip this poem underneath their door LOL!

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    1. Oh goodness, that would be hilarious LOL ~

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  26. Grace, Sensual and the imagery is topnotch.

    Pamela

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  27. Oh wow~I so want to meet your muse! LOL I like how you use animal/hunting images to portray the passion of the lovers. Great steamy read :-)

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  28. ...i don't know if you're aware of this teledrama but your piece reminded me of 'Lobo' starred by Angel Locsin & Piolo Pascual... hehe... 'a forest awaits for a hunt...' --- whew, when this line came in we were given a glimpse already where the whole scene would be goin'.... ha... smiles....

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    1. Really, I am not aware of that series, smiles ~ Thanks Kelvin ~

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  29. Better than 50 shades!! haha This is HOT!

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    1. Maybe I should think about writing a novel, ha ~ Thank you Dana ~

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  30. Thank you everyone for the visit and lovely comments ~

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  31. i loved it!

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  32. On the edge of my seat throughout!

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  33. I love this part:

    "You take your knife, slicing
    me open like an offering, our bread.
    There is the taking & the giving-
    as I burn, sliding down
    your throat like wine, feral & heady.

    Soon a heart
    grows underneath my ribs."

    And the ending. :)

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  34. LOL! Very imaginative mind to describe this chase as a relationship between the hunter and the hunted.

    Won't be surprised you may like BDSM!

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    1. Thank you but I am not interested at all ~

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  35. Wow....erotic to the max...Beautiful and oh, so haunting.

    better than the usual ol' bdsm stuff...this is much, much more sensual and just....wow.

    Lady Nyo

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  36. This is beautiful. Love the sensuousness.

    For some reason Blogger won't let me use my open ID.

    Teresa
    http://razzamadazzle.wordpress.com

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  37. The forest gives a sense of an earthy sensuality - the bare feet gave a sense of texture.

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  38. Very sensual. I liked it.

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  39. easy to get caught in a chase like that. but oh, I do like the ending...

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  40. Divine, carnal, like a throat raw from growling.

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  41. Beautiful! This put some lovely images into my mind.

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