Nothing is sweeter
than your tender embrace still
tingling on my lips

Together is
the salty taste of our sweat mingling
bodies pressed so tightly I no longer know
where I stop and you begin
arms and legs intertwined
hearts inseparable
a dream

The moment I let go of it was
The moment I got more than I could handle
The moment I jumped off of it was
The moment I touched down

-Alanis Morissette in Thank U

scent of thyme and pine
kicked up from the underbrush
walking down life’s path

***

a bubbly bath
soaking out tensions with some
chocolate and champagne

More simple pleasures at One Deep Breath.

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

-Anais Nin

Emily said that “Hope is the thing with feathers”
But even the strongest bird is known stray off course,
misplaced in the darkest night of one’s soul,
as useless as a burnt out flame in sore storms.

Brothers make tomboys
of their sisters with sandpiles,
treehouses and swords.

Last picked for the team,
sitting on the sidelines ’cause
I wasn’t a boy.

More boyhood haiku at One Deep Breath.

I may not be a corporate mogul
or President of a country.
I may not be blue-blooded royalty
or independently wealthy.
I may not be a prize fighter
or own a fast car.
But I do have the power
to change my own outlook
on the things in my life
that make me unhappy.
That makes of me
the most powerful being of all.

For the “powerful” prompt on Sunday Scribblings.