Poems of Desire

Canadian Storyteller Karen Godson My Story Poems of Desire Poems from a Broken Heart If... Evolving Soap Box Reader's Reviews Picture This!

What is desire but the heart afire, and Love a vast forest willingly burning


Keeping It Simple


How tormenting
to bite My tongue;
smile a hollow smile,
and act as though we're best of friends,
yearning for her all the while.
I pine, I need,
I crave, I mourn,
yet am halfway consoled
by her graceful beauty,
that quiets My restless soul.
I'm damned to see
her halo and
her opalescent wings;
to hear angelic music
from her sweet voice as she sings.
I cannot touch
her heavenly body,
it is far too divine.
Suffice it then
to be the only One
who knows she's Mine.


Cunning Linguist

I stand three feet behind you

watching you type and

seeing that place on

your neck where

your hair stops

and your collar starts.

I want to shove

My face into it and

smell you and feel your

shivers when My hot breath

gives you goose bumps.

My mind traces

an invisible finger

around the front and

over your throat.

I can feel you swallow

when My touch makes you

catch your breath.

I am imagining your

naked, herbal-essence skin

melting under My finger.

Now, I am walking

around to the front of you;

seeing your look

of sudden surprise

and then cunning

when you realize I have

silently become naked too.

you didn't hear Me

undressing just behind you;

your constant typing

kept My secret.

But now,

the Cat's out of the bag

hehehe, so to speak.

I am a nude sculpture,

in the dark behind My eyelids,

as your hands close

around My Ivory hips.

you are pulling Me

towards you

your eyes raised to meet Mine,

then lowered again

to map out your Route.

The smirk crouching in the corners

of your mouth

reminds Me of a hungry hyena.

All I can do

is place My hands

on your shoulders,

so My knees don't betray Me.

And I stand here,

your dessert,

while you type.