One

Gloriana Smith 1973 (Portland,Or)

February 23 


Met you alone
One afternoon
Heard on your lips
A forgotten tune

Knew you from
Somewhere outside of time
Hands that color
Outside of the lines

Lost in a moment
Deep in your eyes
The curve of your mouth
Your hands on my thighs

Then quiet and still
Too perfect to move
Breathing in
The smell of you

Tracing a memory
To keep and rewind
Until once more
We are intertwined

About this poem

That first sacred moment in time, when two become one.

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Submitted by on February 07, 2023

Modified on March 28, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXA XXXX XBXB XXXX XCXC
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 373
Words 78
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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  • atlantisexists
    This poem made me feel a memory… and makes me want to try to feel this again…
    LikeReply1 year ago

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