My Bette Midler

Inspired by M.

She's my
         Bette Midler

glaring glints

of scorching
ice

to my

pebbled 

tweaked; teats 

tight, pink

opening mouth

to cradle me

in the arms

of her wet lips

to catapult
gushing grins at me

caramel gaze

trace

the contours of

my detonating

lava

     love?

     lah-ve

like Bette Midler

      lah lah lahhhh

stage-born 

born 

to asphyxiate

find my 

feeble angle

   how can i love her

       when i can't feel her?

those stiletto carved

red toenails

                         that put blood 

                         to shame

 have dripped

       in rivers familiar

              many a time

hurls her 

curls,
      carefree

from sharp

near rigid

erect

hard

   wheat collarbone 

teeth like ivory

piano keys

i want my tongue

to play a song

with her own

  darting

tangled tongue

in mine; now

to drink from

embracing walls

and cups;

fistfuls of ocean

beneath

my wings

 

       moon slathered marbles

       a final fondling
       to my lower lips

                       splash

on Merlot stained sheets

and her

   my Bette Midler;

even her

nerve fingering cry

   tousled whistle

can be heard

                   from

                             from

                                    from a distance.

Reviews

[Jonathan Ballam]

Wow. I loved the style of this poem. The layout was captivating and the rhythm fierce. Here you not only have a good story, but rigid and familiar characters.

I can picture this poem being worked into a song...or perhaps that was the inspiration behind this?

[Baby Ricochet]

I've read four of your poems in a row & I f*****g love them. Lady you can slam some poetry. I've skimmed around this site reading a lot of stuff much of which doesn't say s**t to me. Your's does. THanx....

[I Shred This Cabbage]

some excellent free association here, littered with beautiful phrasings - unexpected but fitting ever perfectly.

[Alpris]

Thank you very much all!

Thanks Jonathan :) The inspiration of course, was Bette. That's probably why it came out as a song sort of.

[MoriartyMesa]

This sort of reminds me of the film Beaches, maybe I am way off the mark. But that was someone she had played in the film and my over all thoughts of the lady.




Nice work.........

[BLACK PRINCE]

This is a good arousing piece of poem
full of deep emotions.

WELL DONE!!!

[J. Anthony Guerrero]

Really amazing piece of work. Its actually one of the best pieces of poetry I feel I've read on this website. Really like the lines, "caramel gaze
trace
the contours of
my detonating
lava."

[Alessander]

I really like the format and some individual lines are awesome.

"Born to asphyxiate"

"My detonating lava"

"moon slathered marble"

Good stuff, even though I'm not much a Bette Midler kinda dude.