Junk Rope

She snakes around him
legs taut in tantric anticipation.
Her midnight purple
hair dances in the
match light.

He is barely aware of her
as he readies their escape.
Drowning in his
concentration, she's begging
for release.

He sticks her, heads
thrown back,
their breath runs up
the bathroom wall;
the sacrament of ghosts.

He follows her into ecstasy
a  clotted chemistry,
rewriting old love stories
from two's to threes,

They believe that they are more
than they have ever been;
Romeo, Juliet and heroin.

Reviews

[icelandicblue]

Powerful words here...
I guess I understand the underlaying meaning of it.
This is really intense, and well thought out.

What I like is that you paint with words, this gave me a Tarantino feeling...
(Pulp Fiction), and I enjoyed that part so much!

Your ending could be interpret as two who love, and die, as "HERO's"

- Elisa

[icelandicblue]

Thanks, I loved Pulp Fiction and Tarantino...I do understand what you mean.
Again many thanks.

You're most welcome... Tomorrow I go read more of you definitely!!!!

[stephen dillon]

opiates and love, one in the same?

[Chidoriflower]

Awesomesauce! Loved it. Especially the old love story part

[icelandicblue]

Thanks...this is an old one I appreciate you reading it. I'm just so happy I don't have to live it anymore.
Thanks again. ; )

[NeiL ArandA]

The craving and longing for the next fix. You captured it with your words... They both in love heed over heels with the heroin ...that was very cool capturing of with your words and pen BlueIce

[icelandicblue]

Ah the destruction it wreaks and the carnage it causes means nothing for in the moment of oblivion there is nothing else. I know because my son is a heroin addict who has been in recovery now for 3 weeks...I have faith and hope though, I truly do.

[NeiL ArandA]

If there's a will there's a way. A mile walk but it always start with a step.

[icelandicblue]

We have been here before but I will never give up. It is where much of may angst and the darkness in my poetry comes from. I wrote my most optimistic piece (ever) sequined dreams for him...for that is what I wish for his future.

[Travis Gibson (poetic h..]

Awesome write... such an interesting perspective on relationships and drug abuse.

[icelandicblue]

Thanks so much for reading Poetic heroics.

[Travis Gibson (poetic heroics)]

It was my pleasure.

[KAOlmsted]

One of the best pieces I have ever read about heroin...my only suggestion would be eliminate the last word, the "heroin", simply because you've already written such a powerful piece on the subject, punctuating it with that unnecessary period is, well...unnecessary. I get the whole rhyme thing, but IMHO, it takes away from your amazing write.

[icelandicblue]

Thanks kimmer. The rhyme at the end is one of my favorite parts so I am going to keep it. I am happy that you liked the rest of it though. Thanks, as always, for your in depth critique.

[KAOlmsted]

Right on...you know best ;-) Always my pleasure, blue...

[icelandicblue]

Thanks- those two lines were the ones that were dancing in my head. I built the rest of the poem around them so I just can't let them go. ; )

[KAOlmsted]

Makes perfect sense to me ;-)

[James Hanna-Magill]

Dear icelandicube

I like to be direct.

If no-one else dares mention the word threesum, should I?

I may be on the wrong track, but there is more than one form of sex and senuslaity and I have lived most.

Should I be stamping on your finer feelings, I can only apologise.

You caught my erotic.

Whatever your meaning, as reader, me in this case, we can only absorb own own, even if one is speaking Dutch and the other Swedish.

I liked this wherever you were drifting.

It made me smile at the complexity of love, the erotic, and sexual relationships, and even how they can be misinterpreted.

With my kindest regards

James

[icelandicblue]

James,
I suffer from no sensitive sensibilities and although that was not my intent your interpretation makes perfect sense. In fact it has made me look at the poem in a new way. A poem, I believe, can have as many refractions as those who read it. I am happy that you enjoyed the poem and found meaning and interest in it.

[James Hanna-Magill]

Dear icelandicblue

Thnk you for tolerating my review.

With a smile.
read moreDear icelandicblue

Thnk you for tolerating my review.

With a smile.

I always find it sesential to send myself up daily to ensure I do not take myself that seriously.

I think your poem and your response to my review are rather more intelligent than my review was.

I am glad though you can see how others might interpret it, in fact their variety. As I keep on saying as writers we only ever address one person at a time and have an intimate converstaion with them.

With my kindest regards as ever

James

[An owl on the moon]

This is a sensual, sacred song that takes us all to that place of passion... the intoxication of mind, heart, and body.

[icelandicblue]

Thank you so much for commenting.

[stephen dillon]

holy crap this is my new favorite poem well done i hope you get that published truely great

[icelandicblue]

Thanks so much! I am happy that you enjoyed the poem.

[icelandicblue]

stephan-
I often wonder how you are. I hope you are well.

[Naomi Bloom]

Love that final couplet. This is breathtaking and captivating. I love it. There is a lot of detail describing the scene and yet you still leave some aspects of the story to the imagination. Great poem!

[icelandicblue]

I am so pleased that you like the poem. I like your take on the construction of the poem.

[Naomi Bloom]

Thanks. It really was lovely.

[Muse]

okay then...I thought I knew what I was reading, but instead I got high off a moment of drug induced poetry. This is sexy...dirty...and a little taboo...I loved it!

[icelandicblue]

I cannot tell you how much I like your review. You have a pirate eye.

[Muse]

one eye is better than two. ;)

[quinfinn]

this is terrific! ah, the blatant abandon and throes of unbridled passion combined with the narcotic effects of nirvana...."he follows her into ecstasy" ....brilliant!

[icelandicblue]

Thanks quinfinn,
I appreciate your enthusiasm!!

[quinfinn]

wonderful write...truly