Post a Poem... (yeah really)

[LongDistanceRunner]

MH

There’s a meadow near the village
the grass breathes tall and yellow
under non-native trees. She tigers
in an English savannah, we chase
butterflies and catch each other
in the dappled light of a sycamore
blinking in love. Her slippery kiss
pins me to its trunk, our mouths
thirsting roots drink gulp quench
gasp mmmm........................................
.......................After it we open a tub
of expensive ice cream and pour
gin into the chocolately middle we
each plunge our spoons in turn in
the yielding sweet sludge and lay
on each other for days listening to
each other’s digestion and dreams.
She traces the letter H on the backs
of my knees and I whisper it back
against the shell of her ear hhhh.

 

[LongDistanceRunner]

The Colour

There's a river by the meadow in the valley on the trail
And we stopped and smelt the rain there as it fell upon the dale
And the sun beamed off the water and the light shone through the mist
And there beside the riverbank we twined our arms and kissed.

As we gazed between the clearing of the forest and the trees
The light became a spectrum holding still within the breeze
The colours of the rainbow in a vivid presentation
But in her voice I felt therein a pain of consternation:

Do you see that colour there just underneath the violet?
Below the arc a colour I'd not seen on autopilot
A tint of maybe yellow greenish mauve or purple gleaming
I squinted sensing: not so much a colour as a feeling.

I wonder what its name might be, she asked and squeezed my side
And I didn't have an answer and there wasn't one to find
And we looked upon this colour, and how it glowed persisting
And humanity won't even acknowledge it existing.

There's a river by the meadow in the valley on the trail
And we stopped and smelt the rain there as it fell upon the dale
And there beside the riverbank we twined our arms and kissed
And the sun beamed off the water and the light shone through the mist.​