Showing posts with label satisfaction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label satisfaction. Show all posts

Saturday, April 26, 2014

The Shortfall of Mortal Love




Love, I would give you everything I have to have and hold
And promise ‘we’ will be enough until I’m very old
The wanting for your touch I pray would never fill or wane
Nor would I suffer very much if love should cause my pain

Darling, the satisfaction of man-woman melded heart
Would be enough forever, but for Love’s intrinsic Part
And just to have you need me would be its immortal prize
Its thrill my hallelujah and its kiss my paradise

Sweetheart, when love lives long enough it is life’s greatest wealth
For it has stood the test of time in sickness and in health
And as I run my fingers over lines betraying youth
I covet years to learn and earn its covenanted truth

…yet oh, for all the beauty that love’s have and hold imparts
It cannot placate wholly the hunger of human hearts
Love, I would render everything I have, to thee entrust
But, there is no salvation in a love twixt dust to dust

© Janet Martin

Friday, November 8, 2013

Supreme Satisfaction



Writer's Digest PAD challenge, day 8
For today’s prompt, write an inanimate object poem. Obviously, you could write an objective poem about an inanimate object, or you can write from the perspective of the inanimate object. If you can think of a third option, have at it.

But for the pounding hoof of
race horse in her chest
But for the salty silver
trickling silent down her face
she is as inanimate
as the mat that bore the action
Where now she pauses
for thirty seconds
of supreme satisfaction 

Janet~

Monday, October 15, 2012

Intangible Satisfaction





You warm me,
Not with cloak or shawl
Nor with sweaters of wool
Or quilted blankets
In nostalgic hue
But,
With the beautiful
Intangible
And ever irreplaceable
Thought of you

You touch me
Not with gentle brush
Of fingertips
Nor with the
Pleasing whisper
Of your lips
But you
Touch me
Like flesh can never do
In the beautiful,
Bittersweet
Satisfying
Thought of you

© Janet~