Series of Love: Taste of Love

We fall in love, call our best friends, and the first thing they want to know is what does it feel like? Why does love always have to feel like something? If I was in love, I'd want to smell it, hear it, see it, and taste it. Let it be the aroma that wakes me to work hard. Let it be that favorite rhyme I hum without thinking, it just comes. Let it be a beautiful painting, a golden sunset, a star filled sky, a half moon. Let it be every part of the senses used to make love work.

What would yours taste like?

I think mine would be like this....

Taste of Love

my love passed me a jar
placed the edge on my lip & i drank
it went down

smooth w/ edges
bits of shaved sweet roasting almonds

hot w/a sour aftertaste like day old soup or cough drops

sweet w/hints of peppermint
that freshness i held under my tongue

a spicy sunburst of tangerine
syrupy thick molasses blanket

it was warm
vanilla flavored coffee
a serving of sweet potato pudding
savory buttered cornbread
homemade apple pie
& extra sweet ice tea

a drop fell on my lips & my love hungrily kissed me
we don't waste

(to be continued)

Series of Love: 16 Words for Love

Someone out there loves so much that its hard to put it into existence. Nothing seems as high as the feeling knowing this is the one, this is my second heartbeat. For those whose breathing match miles apart, whose eyes gaze at nothing seeing their lover, whose mind is only filled with ways to give of themselves; this poem is for you.

If at any moment I failed to capture that moment of being divinely blessed, I apologize. For what I write, I seek.

16 words

There are 16 words for love
to capture the moment of being
more than friends
combining ways to end madness & confusion
crossing the lines
to blend names
no longer being the same lonely
picture but a portrait of what is to come

Compromise- not holding your tongue
to make peace taking it piece by piece
recreating a stable environment

Waiting- for what is meant to come
naturally letting
hands find the womb birthing newness

Understanding- that boundless boxes
surround you
16 ways to seduce
16 ways to purge
yourself new baptized
into each other

16 ways to say I Love You
in the morning
16 ways to say goodnight
16 ways to remix the moves
keeping the walls in shock
to what 2 bodies do next

That space your time
do it again
play it year round
make it a holiday
say loudly " baby it's time"

16 ways to speak revolution of love
lettin words tap dance on ear drums
that beat keep scared walk
around w/ heart sounds in your head,

16 ways to show the honeymoon is
not over

16 words.....

16 words to respect, honor, trust, obey,
be faithful, show character, encourage,
motivate, entice, tease, sweat, taste,
breathe, capture, desire, & build
Love.

To be continued...