August 29, 2022 5:31 am
During nine months of my man in Ireland trying to convince me through Messenger, he should jump on a plane to Oz and we should explore the possibility of rekindling our love of 28 years ago; my heart and my head were at war. The risks seemed too great considering all I had been through. After a bitter divorce, my two wonderful children were now adults, I was making a new life and I had only just learnt to like myself again! (From chapbook 'Exploring Possibilities'.) Suits and ties… Your Corporate wardrobe titillates. Challenges me to abandon - invite you to swim with me – in a sea wet with desire. Throw off your hard shell, your calm, controlled exterior and reveal the let-go you. The knot of your tie, like seaweed trapping the unaware swimmer, restricting your neck - choking. Stopping words that reveal your heart. Speech splinters jab at me - stabbing me with purpose pricking my memory of a shipwrecked love… laid low in my sub-marine. I want you to loosen your tie with purpose, invite intimacy, soul revelations, as you breast-stroke in deep water - prove the want - the known need to be swamped by passion. The three-piece suit necessary clothing - layers hiding… Providing warmth, weighing where sun shafts can’t penetrate or offer paths of lighted guidance. Relinquish your quintessence! Allow this sensual drowning - while arms cleave in swells of touch, taste and heat - liquid languishing laid naked to my reciprocal need. Dismiss the discipline of habitual analysis? Take off those polished shoes - shake off the weight and surrender to feelings incomprehensible to the clever business brain. Allow unknown, unrehearsed, unrestrained actions - releases of reason, to win. I watch you purposely dive our murky, bottomless depths. Hands locked together, arms pointed straight above your head protecting - patiently proving your commitment, your leap with one compulsive breath into our eventual eternity. Frances Macaulay Forde © 2003 1st published in Poets Corner anthology 'Pages Cafe '05' by Frances Macaulay Forde in 2005. #POEM:Suits&Ties #ExploringPossibilities #SketchingInIreland #LoveStory #PoemsAboutLove #RediscoveringLove #Reunited #Romance #Poetry
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I like this very much, particularly its use of metaphor.
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By Liz Gauffreau on August 29, 2022 at 12:17 pm
Thank you, Liz.
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By Frances Macaulay Forde on August 29, 2022 at 4:54 pm
You’re welcome, Frances.
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By Liz Gauffreau on August 29, 2022 at 9:33 pm