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    AC Benus
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Poetry posted in this category are works of fiction. Names, places, characters, events, and incidents are created by the authors' imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual persons (living or dead), organizations, companies, events, or locales are entirely coincidental.
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rima fragmenta, Fragments of a Rift: Fifty Sonnets for Kevin - 9. a pentecostal flame

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Sonnet No. 17

 

Why is it every time I close my eyes,

The sweetness of you comes within my sight? –

Why when I stop my ears from my own sighs,

Your dulcet timbre vibrates in delight?

Oh, Kevin – these hands ache for your embrace:

These arms and feet pressed against your chest,

Lips parted, quenched, but striving for your face,

Waiting for the moment of union blessed.

Gradually, your efforts slow and then cease –

But I feel you, your weight pressed against it;

That quivering pause before a great release –

And in me, I absorb every last bit

Till your form descends upon me in peace

To make your memory in me permanent.

 

 

Sonnet No. 18

 

In my vision, the pentecostal flame

May descend in hues of red vermilion,

But burning is not its most ardent aim,

Converting believer from civilian.

Your hands are just the same, burnishing me

Like an agate iron, to liquefy

The thinnest gold sheet that my skin may be;

To not destroy, but enlight my mind’s eye.

So when your forceful grip commands my flesh,

It’s as convert I willingly submit,

And know my precious soul is thus refreshed

Once your tool glows hot from my passions lit.

A new faith, a new creed is in your caress;

An evangelical end to my distress.

 

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2 hours ago, Parker Owens said:

You write of a fire that does not consume, but inspires, of lovemaking that does not spend itself, but burns for all time in the heart. In these two sonnets, that very fire is kindled not just in you, but in anyone who reads them, for who could resist their heat and spirit? These are magnificent.

Thank you, my dear friend. I seem to remember asking you, way back when, if you thought No. 18 was upsettingly sacrilegious. I guess now the answer is yes, but in a pleasing way :)  

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