Wake
Pillows soaked in drunken dreams
Dip the wandering mind in wine
Let desire lick fine lips once
Or twice more, before sleep
Comes to such a halt, my heels
Leave impressions in the dust
Sharp violet eyes, round as moon
Peer through the rosy glass
And hear it shatter sunlit prisms
Across the surface of a sea of bed sheets
As one body crawls out from under
The seductive waves, and wakes.
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 375 |
Words | 72 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
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