Right now......
My skin aches to be pressed against yours
Tight
With no room to breathe
Like a wet suit waiting to be put on
By you
Your fingers tugging at my zipper
Sliding me up across your thighs
Hot
Your hands sear my skin
You bring me to your hips
Where I rest for a moment
Savoring the glide
Up across your navel
I wrap myself around your waist
Where you allow me to hang for awhile
And with every breath you take
I rise....and fall......then rise again
by me
OMG!!! You have an AMAZING gift with words! If I'm ever "not in the mood" for whatever reason, and my husband wants me ... I just need to read one of your beautifully steamy poems and ... Whoa! Talk about lighting a fire and desire within me for my husband! Now I REALLY can't wait for him to come home :D PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE write a book!!! I would SO buy your poems. You're the first I've ever read (besides the Bible) that makes LOVE so beautiful and not ... well, twisted or perverted ... your poems speak volumes to me! You'd really me doing a dis-service by NOT sharing with the world. I know as a musician I should be taking my own advice, and it's hard to put yourself out there, but you've done it here, and I know I'm not the only one who would go "I LOVE THESE!" BTW: The pic ... again, AMAZING!
thanks so much again for your thoughts and comments and support! It means so much to me. I have struggled with this for awhile because....it is so easy to cross the line and make my poetry more "erotic" or downright "slutty" for lack of better terms. As a Christian..using a lot of the words so straightforward and such really bothered me......and that is the main reason I felt I could not put a lot of what I wrote into a book. It was just so raw.....
I had been wanting to put my poems out there for everyone to read...relish in and enjoy.....but then realized perhaps I was too focused on creating "lust" for the flesh only and not so much the pure emotion of "love." SO I constantly was asking myself....as a Christian HOW I could put these things I wrote OUT there for the masses and feel good about it....because I was stirring up stuff in people I probably was not supposed to. How could I attach my name to it? Would I feel "good" about what I did one day? Could I hold my head up high?
Needless to say I stopped writing for about a year.
I then began to wonder why I could not take what I have already written and new ideas and try to leave the sluttiness aspect out of it...I mean anyone can use those words and write that.....and instead focus more on the LOVE...the EMOTION...the feelings...the PUREness of it all.
SO....then I discovered Channing's site here....and I felt it would be a great way to challenge myself to do just that....and I have been very thankful for so much here.....and for the realization that I CAN rewrite or newly write pieces of work I would not be ashamed of one day .......to have my name attached to. I think the entire WORLD is longing to be MOVED.......to be touched by love.......to FEEL it again.....not just the skin-on-skin aspects of it we are bombarded with in the news and television shows, etc.
That became my goal. Some of the pieces I have posted here I have reworked and left words out I just struggled with using anymore. I am happy to know it has the effect I was aiming for when someone reads it!
Oh WOW!!! What a response! I love it!!! <3 From a young age we almost TAUGHT to think of sex as being yucky, and not beautiful. Talking to some you hear "oh, I have to have the lights off or the covers completely on." And to tell you the truth ... that just makes me sad :(
Sex, a gift from God, to show true marriage ... where two become one. I am also a Christian (prefer to say "I have a relationship with Jesus/God" because of how watered down the word "christian" has become). Anyway, first I am SO proud of you, as a sister in Christ, for your re-working your talent to bring Glory to God! I am praising God for you right now! <3 I believe that sex is a gift from God for those who have chosen to commit for a lifetime (we have marriage ceremonies, but in biblical times ... if you made love ... you were married. That WAS the ceremony *wink*) Today things have gotten out of hand. People are quite literally joining themselves to whoever ... whenever, and then wondering why they feel like a part of them is missing when they separate or "break-up" well it's because you pretty much just went through a divorce, and because you were joined as one ... there IS apart of you that is now missing. That's SAD! :( I'm beginning to forget where I'm going with this. I guess what I'm trying to articulate is that sex is a beautiful thing ... a gift, and I would HIGHLY recommend you going to Barnes n' Noble, or something of that sort, and reading a book by the name "HOLY SEX" it's in the Christian section. I own it :) Love it! My hope is that everyone will someday understand the beauty of making love as a gift to those that are committed for a lifetime through marriage and turn their back on lust and flesh desires that only bring about pain and ultimately death (of the spirit and sometimes even physically). You are reaching your goal, darling, and I can tell you that confidently. Because #1 I wouldn't lie to you, and #2 I'm a Christ follower, and I would tell you if it sounded "slutty" I promise :) Keep posting, keep shining your LIGHT ... you are bringing MUCH glory to God!
thanks so much again for your very kind words and comments! I believe the same as you........I believe too that sex is a gift from God for couples who have committed to each other in marriage as well...that it becomes at that point the ultimate gift from Him to us....not only physical but also spiritual....and a union that is so much more than just flesh-on-flesh. There are several components to this between a couple that all have to be in place and so often we leave out 1 or 2 of the parts and then wonder why it all falls apart. I found this video on You Tube that says it all so very well...you can watch it here (and no I am not promoting this one particular person or church, etc) but the video explains it all so well. The video made a huge impact on me in its explanation and makes so much sense. I had posted it here actually a couple of times and elsewhere. I think if you have not seen it you may like to....if you have an extra 10-11 minutes. It shows just how beautiful a couple's LOVE is and how it all begins .....first as friendship/soulmate recognition, and then comes the commitment between the two....and the ultimate...the sexual aspect of the relationship....such a beautiful way to express the LOVE...the ultimate love for each other. It becomes a spiritual act.....we become so very close to GOD at that time.
Anyway...I have rambled on. You can watch the clip here if you wish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYc3F6JSTdw
Otherwise I thank God for you and letting me know I am on the right track with all this. I would feel GOOD about having my name associated with the work I am slowly creating or even re-creating now. ;)
WOW!!! That was AWESOME!!! I've never had it explained so beautifully. I remember someone trying to explain it using the greek, not the hebrew ... and personally I like the way Rob explained it better. My husband and I had raya for about one year, and then we moved onto ahava and knew that we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together :) After 1 year friendship and 1 1/2 years of engagement ... we jumped into the beautiful boat of "dod" ;) Wow! I'm going to try and share this with Matthew (my hubby) when he gets back from warrior training in a week. I hope he'll be open to it. I am SO blessed by you sharing that with me, Thank you :D Feel free to "ramble" anytime. I love hearing what you have to say :) You're my sister in Christ <><
just wanted to thank you for putting that video on here, i watched it and absolutely love it. i feel like not that many people understand how to me happy in a relationship and this just put it so simply and beautifully that even if you arent religious (thankfully i am) you would appreciate the content. thanks so much melinda!
you are most welcome! I felt the same way about the video and had actually posted it on here a few weeks back...somewhere....but I don't think at that time it got any comments at all. I was surprised, not because I was fishing for comments, but because to me the video was so powerful in explaining LOVE and all the different types of love.....and it was just so beautiful. BUT....it may just have gotten lost in the flow...sometimes things do that way. GLAD to know you also liked it for basically all the same reasons!