Phantom Contrary~

~a gender puzzle~

girl

in my mirror

baby looks clean

clearer

inhale

smoke exhale

impale

a bouquet of sage

thoughts

draws a gentleman effigy

eyeliner in think ink black

smile

attack

sensual glide above the upper berry lip

playful grin

lush

thrilling kill

long hands moist with silk

silkening fine hair off the temples

to give good face

like Grace

Kelly

in tantalizing

gender bending

 bone

array

 

girl

turns the mirror around

wing tip shoe

solid ground

she mans up her posture

adjusts her tie

the most seductive lie

smoothes the pleats

of her well pressed pants

winks

asks

“Is it romance?”

clicks a heel in rhythm

to his breathless

ache

his lashes flutter

for love’s sake

she unwinds him toward her

whispering

"Come."

so pure on her arm

a dove

 

 

he gives her

his definition

in submissive composition

she reshapes it with kohl

gives him cat eyes

his beauty a sigh

defines

his lips with moist mauve

his blush a soft a rose

prose

in her soft hummingbird throat

deepening on a song

his eyes half closed

pressed with smoky lashes

she strokes his fashion

stokes

passion

 

 

 

girl in a boy

in a fine suit

bloom in a pocket

root

man in a woman

in silk shifts

kiss

drift

she moves against his back

to play his erotic silhouette

her fingertips murmur the blue silk off his shoulders

where her lips press

indent

tiny spaces for exotic sensations release him from being a man

the end is the middle

where they began

she turns him

pulls him through her masculine

until he flowers feminine

her mouth a rose in bloom

tasting every bone

in his face

he is grace

in surrender

drinking his pure give

she absorbs the rouge from his surrendering mouth

kiss for his playful pout

 

makes love to him

like a man

taking every stain

until he gives against her bend

she pulls him back

in

through her side

trails his gasp

with a smile

her touch like radiance

through his lush desire

to be her woman

such a woman to her man

he whispers

gives her voice in nightingale

 “Man in my mirror you are

such a beautiful phantom

a moonlit night, a star

in Paris . . . .”

 

 

 

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Reviews

[DannyLynne Riley]

I love the rhythm in this...and the ending was perfect you have such a way with words Selene I am always awe struck and please please forgive that it seems I always begin each review of you with the opening "I love..." I don't mean to sound redundant its just that its always the first words to pop into my head..."I loved it" -DannyLynne

[luciddreamer]

I am amazed each and every single time I see something through a different perspective...it will always and forever, for me, be the miracle of life...you are the Queen of taking us on these journeys...

[C]

Bringing those two halves of self elegantly together.

[Bard Constantine]

Shattering those social stasis boxes that seek to entrap us... it seems odd to switch gender faces at first glance, but perhaps Mars and Venus would understand one another better if they swapped orbits for a while... I think society has it fixed that there can be no truce in the battle of the sexes, which is why we are more embattled than the Middle East. Yet a simple look through the eyes of another can so drastically change one's perspective... or at least that's what I got out of this thought-provoking write....

[Matthew Kult]

Hello Selene,

You should know by know, I usually allow my own imagination take me on the journey you offer not only to me but to everyone. I do like the ambiguity your writings offer from time to time. It lets me float in the sky and to take the puzzle pieces you offer and sometimes to rearrange. It is no lie I have been inspired by a few lines that you wrote. I am sure you are aware of this and I am sure you are wondering what point I am coming too.

It's simple, this poem to me reflects everything a writer should be. A writer shouldn't have a set face but be able to create what ever face they want you to see. They create a world of eternity and drive...a world of monsters and killers, or a young woman confused in who she is...This my friend, as always, was amazing. Amazing that such a simple mind can enjoy something so complex.

Always,

Matthew

[Crow]

I can say nothing more than Shawn Renee has, the imagery and feeling seem to ring so true.

[Ed Hart]

behind this mirror door, which ain't so easy to open, the trick of gender falls aside, and we can breathe so deeply, and play so freely, that we can learn to fly...you have such beautiful wings

[emmajoy]

We are who we are, part outside, part inside our thinking and feeling, adopted by influence, inheritance absorbed in natural self .. and, when we meet someone else who drifts into our puzzle we near completion.

There's more than the sensual in this wonderful writing, there's an adventure into self. Your writing touches nerves inside me, I want to leap over the moon and hang suspended, dear friend!

'he gives her
his definition
in submissive composition
she reshapes it with kohl
gives him cat eyes'

[Jibey]

Clever confusions - I loved the way you teased out the ambiguities of gender and in particular the drama of shifting roles between lovers...

[Bubo]

It could be read in many different way..........the beauty of it, although gender issues bring little beauty......self discover and exploration, a sense of certainty of what one is........it speaks on many levels to me having a transgender child, but it speaks of strength......veru sensual, loved it, as I love all your work.

[JelliFyshKissUs]

Of course everyone will get something different out of this, but for me, this is a woman coming to love herself and all her masculine ways. We can love no other until we love ourselves. And you reveal such a statement with an elegant beauty others can not.