Amalgam in Orange

Eye to eye

we lie

blinking

so close our lines blur

breathing,

no

not breathing,

inhaling

the scent of the other.

Our lips press together

and like a drowning man

a lifetime flashes in front of my eyes

deja vu tornado

a million zillion pictures rushing

like magazine pages 

frantically flipping in the wind,

as our lips 

press 

together

espresso intense. 

Abruptly as

waking from a dream 

its over

images slip slip away 

just out of reach

and all thats left 

are echoes and

a kind of 

fuzzy euphoria

then out of the mist

drifts one last scene 

we're sitting on the spanish steps

eating roasted chestnuts 

from a paper cone

and the sky 

is orange.

Reviews

[R J Askew]

Ach, the whole of life is in this. This is how it is. We get older and suddenly we see those pages fluttering away and we are left with one last image at the end. I know you didn't mean it this way as it is a happy love poem. But you've nailed more than that here. It is all intensely, beautifully intimate, two people as close as close. And then 'It's over'. All slips away like a dream melting on waking. And then that terribly poignant 'last scene'. Why does it, any of it, ever have to end. Ach, pain, pain! Answer: it ends so we can do it all again!

[April Child]

We put it out there and the reader interprets. I like your interpretation. I like that it has different meanings. Thanks Lando :)

[Simon Welsh]

I love that last line. Reminds me of beautiful dreams lost to grey reality.

[SyberRose]

Beautifully penned...i interpret this as lovers dying together for some reason...a final kiss...Rose:)

[Tree]

This is why I think I write, too. So I might never forget. Reading this I felt a gnawing, at my own remembrance. A tenderness, a little sadness. And those last 4 little stanzas were beautifully vivid, redolent with the colors of memory

[April Child]

There is no denying the power of the written word. Time might fool you but words hold true. Thanks for the review Diego :)

[Angel's Lady]

Beautiful! Love, lust blur into one and how permanent is forever anyway? Enjoy today, to its fullest, with no looking back, eyes closed as we do sometimes on this roller coaster of life. I loved the ending, by the way...

we're sitting on the spanish steps
eating roasted chestnuts
from a paper cone

and the sky
is orange.

PERFECT.

[April Child]

No looking back, yes you are right! Just what I needed to read right now today! Thanks G. Muah

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

Oh that rush of a first kiss... a fun poem to read.

[April Child]

Glad you enjoyed. Thanks for the read :)

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

My pleasure.