Guest Poet Candice James
HOT NIGHTS
© 2012 Candice James
Hot nights, tender and cruel,
Wet, slick, flaming moments
Licking our bodies
Whipping this dream
To a higher state of frenzy.
Stepladder to the stars,
Shooting like a rocket
Fueled by the beating
Of our hearts
Tangled up in
Hot nights,tender and cruel.
Crashing the shores of emotion
Tidal wave of heat
Raging yet soothing
Pulls us under.
Breathless,
Welcoming the death
We chase to expiate the passion,
We’ve fashioned
Tenderly and cruelly into
Hot nights.
MARBLE AND FROST
© 2011 Candice James
On the marble tiled floor of my memory
The paintings shine from the walls
In the frosted blue mirror above me
Cobalt rivers that flow to the sea
Dark canyons with white waterfalls
On the marble tiled floor of my memory
And always you come back to me
With ghostly murmurs and calls
In the frosted blue mirror above me
In the lost depths of my reverie
A shadow from yesterday shawls
On the marble tiled floor of my memory
A ribbon of sunset surrounds me
As burnt ink indelibly scrawls
In the frosted blue mirror above me
Your image always will be
Flowing through star dusted halls
On the marble tiled floor of my memory,
In the frosted blue mirror above me.
PUDDLE
© Candice James
A rain puddle glistens
With shards of scarlet heart
Disguised in crumpled robes
Discarded
Vestiges of a burned out cathedral.
Prayers,
Buried in sacrilegious sermons
Delivered in dust
And Vesuvial ash
From perdition’s podium.
Shivering inside an icicled Hell,
A raindrop whisper,
Aswirl in a bandit breeze
Has handcuffed my heart
To a muffled cry,
Clawing its way through
This screaming silence
I’ve become.
The rain puddle glistens.
The cathedral crumbles.
The robes, fade, yellow,
Teeth, gnash and chew at prayers
Devouring them
Until there’s nothing left
Except the puddle
Rippling in a distant chant.
WITH AGELESS FRAGILITY
© 2011 Candice James
Your image, an indelible stain on my mind,
A dark blue portrait of passion and dreams,
With ageless fragility thus designed.
A cipher for love letters undefined,
Buried in pockets of silent screams,
Your image, an indelible stain on my mind.
Always pure, your face never maligned,
Illuminated in pearl moonbeams,
With ageless fragility thus designed.
All broken vows now underlined
As the ink bends, breaks into tears and streams,
Your image, an indelible stain on my mind.
Moving fast forward into rewind
Everything becoming what least it seems,
With ageless fragility thus designed.
Passion’s rule won’t be undermined;
The tip of her pen glistens and gleams;
Your image, an indelible stain on my mind,
With ageless fragility thus designed.
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