~~Le Petit Mort

translation~the little death

dreamers floating on starlit cotton candy half way to the moon

signs of celestial bodies memories flaming in unison

lost in a trance of artistic delight of tenuous heights

wanderers meet on a plain halfway between nirvana

thunderous roar of passion's brazen bounties

no words to explain the shadow dance of aching 

falling to earth in pools of sinful ecstatic pleasure 

a small death of harmonious concourse to heaven's gates

Author's Note

Reviews

[David Scott]

Thank goodness for the copper tops... ;)
Now look who's being naughty! Ha.
Tasteful. Actually yummy...

[Frieda P]

Laughing here, batteries, surely you jest! ;-)

[Daisie Vergara (Dhaye)]

What a poem! The pleasure of being with each other in a very intimate moment. They say that it's the "heaven" on Earth.

Nice choice of words, as you always do. This is really amazing, Frieda.

[Frieda P]

Thanks so much, jazzed you liked this one. :-)

[Leslie Philibert]

as the French say, the small death, the orgasm...
a poem full of sensuality that is never crude, but full of subtley and style...

[Frieda P]

Thanks Leslie, much appreciate your kind review.

[Brett Pritchard]

Hmmm. Very interesting.
I'm reading a sexual meaning into the depiction here.
Could be that's what the piece is, or maybe I'm just obsessed.

Either way, some beautiful imagery and ideas here and a real image of beautiful union in the purest and most non salacious sense is conveyed.

Lovely work.

BP

[Frieda P]

Perhaps you're obsessed I don't know but you'd be correct, thanks Brett.

[Pete Langley]

Hovering in ecstacy comes to mind...like while I was reading this poem. I think you have written a definitive piece here. honey...nectar from Aphrodite. P.

[Frieda P]

Woo, savoring the moment in your review Pete, grazie mille x

[junaid altaf]

what use of words and what a way to mingle them into such an exquisite form........

[Frieda P]

thanks so much for this glowing review, much appreciated junaid....

[junaid altaf]

you deserve more than words.........

[Frieda P]

Wow, you're much too kind, I'm humbled, thanks again......

[junaid altaf]

wwelcome p:-)

[Dana Alsamsam]

such a lovely spin of metaphor and images! this sultry piece left me with a mischievous smile- great work

[Frieda P]

Always the best kind Dana, thanks so much. ;-)

[Barbara Walker]

Heaven on earth! The little death that radiates pleasure to every cell! Love this poem.

[Frieda P]

Thanks, Barbara, jazzed you did.

[ChemicalMadness]

Frieda....venturing outside of l'italiano? La piccola morte would have sufficed....either way, I accept your unabashed lingering lines of love. Grazi Mille!!! ;)

[Frieda P]

I don't know for some reason it sounds so much sexier in French even though I love the Italiano, Grazie Mille, baci!

[Leandro Mendez]

this is beautifully written, wow.