Suzanne Comes Out With The Stars

By Peter Christopher Raymond

 

Copyright 2016

 

Expounding on every arousal in order of which it occurred

Urges stirred and surging with each provocative word

Repressed and resting now requesting pressing palms

At your clear and well-aware behest disturbing your calm

While not well-endowed I gained entry to your shroud

As you shuffled me away from the condescending crowd

Could I imagine or fathom the tender moistness of your lips

Any complaint or sense of restraint in thorough eclipse

Fabric plastered to your warm and sweat-drenched skin

Rules rudely retooled and improvised surprise and conjure a grin

Heels slide smoothly out as you shed your shoes

Sparks part the darkness with each motion from my muse

Divulging fond indulgences displaying childlike craving

Betraying your maturity in merry misbehaving

Engaged in brazen naughty games as babies in a nursery

To stave off the staleness of endless anniversaries

Don't taint your plaintive beauty with too much paint

Some grateful restraint for the light is so faint

Head pressed and loved slightly less than one from your womb

The consuming scent flooding the room when lavender blooms

Rubbing my temple with gentle sentimental strokes

Kept from drifting drowsily to sleep by playful pokes

With an onslaught of thoughts prodded by hormonal release

I'll collect your affections however long they be on lease

 

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KindredSpirit's picture

Yes Pete

The drudgery of life.

Your work is well received

Thus being a viable release

And confirmation that you

Are doing something write.

On to knowing your work

Does have the shelf-life

You have hoped for.

KS

 

You remind me of 

Stephen King.

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I love your ability to write

I love your ability to write spontaneously. I met Stepehn King once, but I didn't know it at the time. I was working at Tower Records in Boston and he came in to buy a bunch of books. It was summer and he was kind of dressed like a tourist in a tropical shirt and he had sunglasses. After he left someone pointed out that it was him.

KindredSpirit's picture

What can I say ?

But there He is

In the Building

KS

Stages it was carried out

And in the end

There stood a Pyramid.

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That's beautiful!:)

That's beautiful!:)

KindredSpirit's picture

Thanks

I like to say a little more

At times when I comment

But sometimes people might

Take things the wrong way.

Glad you got it.

You have been being

Mysterious lately.

I have seen you around but no posts .

 

Working on your masterpieces.

( like a mad scientist )

Haha  later.

KS

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I feel badly the long

I feel badly about the long stretches of time between my poems sometimes. When I was much younger, say, nineteen and twenty, I would write poetry constantly because I felt as though I had a lot to say and a lot of ideas to draw upon. But nowadays life has become some mundane that anything I manage to write is almost invariably fiction because if I do draw upon my own life it would be dull as dishwater.

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I think you touch on an

I think you touch on an important aspect, here, that personal poetry (that is, the confessional poem centered around the capital I) is usually as dull as dishwater.  This is an innovation mostly of the 20th century---Plath, Sexton, Lowell, etc.  In centuries past, the greatest poets told stories in their poems, stories that were obviously fictive.  Wallace Stevens, in the 20th century, struck a good balance between the two, but he is that rarest of examples.


Starward

bishu's picture

Nice to read you after the long break

Enigmatic Suzannne


©bishu 

 

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Thank you, Bishu. I never

Thank you, Bishu. I never mean to take so long between poems. It's partly because I'm trying not to repeat myself too much thematically or use words and phrases I've used many times before.

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I Wrote That!

As in I heard that! I am revising a (hopefully) final novel and find words and word groupings often repeated. I am going back and substuting better words, more creatively constructed alternate word groups - substantive with solid emotional impact. It's a challenge, but absorbing and expanding personally. I will be living in a thesaurus for a while longer. See u around the site. "I" poems can be challenging. I am a Stevens fan. B well. -  :D slc