These are some more pieces from my ongoing project, “Death and the Maiden (A romance)”, which developed from a couple of images from the V and A I have posted earlier. At the moment I have a series of layered images, becoming dreamy abstracts. These I may add text or calligraphic elements to. The verse imagery parallels and complements the pictures, I hope. Love, sex and death – how very…
Peel back the curious eye,
A dancing touch to your innards,
Let it pierce the mysteries
Of your fleshly mechanics….
Your cool fingertips, smooth as pearl,
Slip down roads to sudden roundness,
A blessing of seed…..
Swimming where oceans clash,
The liquid crush, wave on wave.
Our very ground throbs feathered…
Pouring souls into circles
Achieving the fruit of life,
Its juice drips warm to sleep….
Your face, a half moon
In the sky of my desiring….
The most perfect words
Slip between the cracks of sleep…
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Cradled in bone
Time rocks to and fro.
We trespass not so far
Then flow smooth and fast
Into luminescence,
Penetrating softnesses,
Following sages, burning letters
Flying before us.
An unprecedented rivalry of substance,
A cloud of element and vapour.
Demure, then ferociously hungry
We exchange bodies for heat and flame
And roaring liquids.
Pouring vessels.
Spout of hard bliss.
simonhlilly 