I should have asked you home with me
So bold of me, “come home with me”
Where we would’ve done just what we’d do
(And we’d do them well, those things we’d do)
Instead, I dream of you now in verse
And write my heartbeat next to yours
In these lines, I render false memories
Of kissing up and down your neck
And singing soft songs of sweet abandon
These are open and imagined spaces
Shhhh, don’t tell me anything
I don’t want to hear anything
about anything at all
Just put your hand in mine
And never ever go away
Please, never ever go away
Jason Preu 
♥️
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… corporeal?
“These are open and imagined spaces”
A lovely write, jdoublep.
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Perfect fill-in for this one. (As always, thanks for the comments, Sunra.)
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Always welcome, jdoublep.
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I felt the songs without words first by reading words, in a long ago book, and saw momentarily breathless, whole body and lungs refreshing story-pictures in words that felt like songs I’d not heard, that looked like the next painting I will paint.
One word I remember I’d deleted from yesterday’s prose poem that I wasn’t truly up for writing was: Hush; not replaced with Shhh, ‘tho considered—the meaning fuller thru deleted words, gone off more like the sky-songs I learn without words, and which lulled me afterwards into a very deep, very contented sleep.
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Reading this poem again,💕to appreciate fully, & without my rambly comment 🙂
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^Oh hey I was not implying this poem was for/about me. 😆
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HA! No worries, I didn’t think your comments implied such. 🙂 though there are some exceptions, I rarely write specifically to/for anyone (without being being obvious about it in the poem itself via title or some other mechanic). heck, for the most part the past 5-6 years, most of my writing isn’t even from my perspective – like – I’m not the speaker in the majority of what you read here – that 24-hour cycle notwithstanding…
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Yes yes for ’fictional’ or non-personal to author speakers in poetry!! 🙌😊
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