The Lust Between Us

Daylight bleeds

In through satin curtains, and the

Saturnalia of our fairytale last night

Transcends this harrowed space (in which my)

Restive heartbeats still.

All the lust between us (now a vapor...)

Clouds that dissipate into the

Tapered framework of your chalky windowsill.

I think I've fallen deeply, an

Odalisque I am to this

Niaiserie; to a Rome that can't be built (within the) single breath of midnight thrills--all the lust between us (now a vapor as) my restive heartbeats still.

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-Gina C.🧚‍♀️✨

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Author's Note: I feel like I may have pigeonholed myself into accurately classifying all of my poems now. 😅

This one is a mix of my Signature and Petite lines because - while short - it carries more of the typical rhyme and flow pattern of my Signature collection. I also relied a bit heavily on the use of embellishments (bolding, underlining, and italics) to ensure the rhythm carried the way I wanted it to (which is something I've been trying to do less of within the Petite line.) Therefore, I am now creating a third line:

Signature Mini 😅 (I'm kind of laughing at myself with all this, and it's ok if you do, too! ☺️)

Anyway, here are the definitions of some of the keywords in here, which have been borrowed from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Wiktionary:

niaiserie noun

njɛz.ʁi (niais +‎ -erie)

foolish talk or behavior

odalisque noun

ō-də-ˌlisk

an enslaved woman

saturnalia noun

sa-tər-ˈnāl-yə

an unrestrained, often licentious celebration

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If you'd like to read other poems from my Signature Mini collection, check out these:

This poem was written for the Dancing with Distraction Challenge. :)

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