poetry prompts

[aphrodite_mine]

I don't write much poetry any more, but my brain needs a break from thinking in terms of plot so I'm stealing this idea from sullensiren:

Leave me a photo, lyric, article, word, etc, etc, and I'll write you a poem inspired by it.

Comments

[olivia-j.livejournal.com]

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more familiar than I care to
admit in crushed breaths, lost

the shadows moving underneath
your skin, shaped like finger
prints, shaped like a kiss

good morning you say
knowing that the sun will rise
regardless

[olivia-j.livejournal.com]

OH! That is just a million different shades of gorgeous. Thank you so much!

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Thank you for the prompt!

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Thanks for your prompt!

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Jeremy gave me "Give me Everything Tonight" by Pitbull

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arms
arms and arms
and hands
teeth against a pulse that burns under
skin slick with sweat from
the drink you downed
swallowing whole
swallowing you

blue and beat fading as
the lights come up
your skin again
a blank canvas
burning

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mage_girl gave me "love and fidelity"

--

this is what I offer you:

the pink scar on my middleback, shaped
like the space between our bodies
now

the flash of yellow
through my iris, lightening and thunder and
the calm that comes after

the catch of your name tangled
between teeth and tongue, sliding
over the air, electric

the crook of my baby toe

the space, pressed, between my thighs

your hand, mine

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Amanda wanted a poem about stag beer, which I've never drunk

--

your bitter German
mouth
on
my see-through skin, bruising

I whisper prayer
to the St.
longing, cold like glass
capillaries like secrets between
us