Saturday, April 7, 2007

Poetry Exercise #12: Diction Poem

“7 Ways of Looking at a Kiss”

Touching mouths of lust
make us fall into
the shadowy path.

A precursor to copulation,
two humans join themselves
at the mouth.

Like when mom pours my
cereal
and the milk touches the
cheerios
and they get soggy and
gross.

Kinda a cross between
a star, exploding
or a drunk knocking out
my headlights with a
baseball bat.

Sudden, unnoticed movement—
my heart beats a warning and his lips cut into mine.

The two teenagers reach together,
overcoming feelings of shame, lust
and anxiety.
They succumb to peer pressure.

I tasted the salt on his lips.
His tongue merged with mine.
Our bodies quivered as one.

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