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    AC Benus
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One Hundred and Fifty-Five Sonnets - 44. word and flesh

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Sonnet No. 87

 

I want to leave my bitterness behind.

Dump their acrimony back in their lap,

And in its place, with you I wish to find

The inner peace from which we may both tap.

If a man can pluck an angel feather

By reaching up towards the divine one –

As he soars through the blue-sky Earthly weather –

Then with you I think my task's already done.

To touch you is to know angels exist,

And that they – manly – love humans in return,

For what else can explain what lifts the mist

When your smile burns away my every concern.

Light as a feather on His righteous scale,

Our love outweighs densest Hate's every travail.

 

 

Sonnet No. 88

 

If I close my eyes, do it – there – just so

My hands can enclose yours, and my lips

Can caress the back of your neck just below

The points where shirt collar your flesh eclipse.

But, that roving hand of mine won't stay still,

As over your waist and upper thigh grips,

An escaped moan of yours tells me that I thrill

When it settles in one place, and unzips.

My kisses sink deep along your tilting nape,

While backwards your arms raise sensual flips

To pull me deeper into your shape,

As my breaths, my touch, inhibition strips.

Turn within my embrace and reward me –

Kiss me, and word and flesh will ever be.

 

 

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Parker Owens

Number 87's defiant, thumb-in-the-eye first stanza grabbed my attention. They can have their acrimony and their hatred. The speaker tells how deep is his love for the beloved, and it is beautiful. The comparison of the lover to the sun who burns away the mist is wonderful. If the first of these two grabbed and held my attention, the second seemed more like a promise fulfilled. Number 88 describes with each vivid and sensual line the ascent into love, and the deeper conversation of the body that follows. Beautiful. Thank you.

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Mikiesboy

Oh, AC, they are each wonderful.  They each make me sigh with fulfillment and contentment.

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mollyhousemouse

oh AC! i think i read them 4 or 5 times today :heart:

87-- first off, the fact that you used ACRIMONY, a word i had to look up, is just amazing!

then the way "the speaker" talks about dumping all that bitterness back onto whomever it is that caused it to happen and how he wants that peace that knowing love can bring, and this his love is a divine gift

this one is just, oh the feels! 

88-- is just so sensual! it's a very sexy love letter, if it were a text, it would be sexting!

 

thanks AC, thank you so very much!

 

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Defiance19

Love, love, love these. The understated, impassioned tone in #87 made me catch my breath. 

Beautiful work, AC.  

 

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On 5/8/2018 at 1:06 PM, Parker Owens said:

Number 87's defiant, thumb-in-the-eye first stanza grabbed my attention. They can have their acrimony and their hatred. The speaker tells how deep is his love for the beloved, and it is beautiful. The comparison of the lover to the sun who burns away the mist is wonderful. If the first of these two grabbed and held my attention, the second seemed more like a promise fulfilled. Number 88 describes with each vivid and sensual line the ascent into love, and the deeper conversation of the body that follows. Beautiful. Thank you.

Thank you for your kindness, Parker. Your comments are wonderful. I like and appreciate how you see the progress of the two poems here; it's a sort of promise and realization, if I can characterize it. For me, just reading them over again now, I respond to how No. 88 is intimate and quiet, and No. 87 seeks to rebuke the outside world. 

 

Thanks again for your support. It means the world to me :)

 

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On 5/8/2018 at 3:26 PM, Mikiesboy said:

Oh, AC, they are each wonderful.  They each make me sigh with fulfillment and contentment.

Thank you for reading and commenting, Tim. Sighs are wonderful feedback to receive. It makes me feel I've done it right :yes: 

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On 5/8/2018 at 4:59 PM, mollyhousemouse said:

oh AC! i think i read them 4 or 5 times today :heart:

87-- first off, the fact that you used ACRIMONY, a word i had to look up, is just amazing!

then the way "the speaker" talks about dumping all that bitterness back onto whomever it is that caused it to happen and how he wants that peace that knowing love can bring, and this his love is a divine gift

this one is just, oh the feels! 

88-- is just so sensual! it's a very sexy love letter, if it were a text, it would be sexting!

 

thanks AC, thank you so very much!

 

Thank you, Molly! The reason I used acrimony where I did is because the sound of the word produces a bitter feel in the mouth. Even just writing this reminds me of our dear, departed @skinnydragon. He often mentioned the taste of words.... That you read them several times and kept being drawn back to them is a great compliment. I thank you, muah ❤️

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On 5/12/2018 at 11:19 PM, Defiance19 said:

Love, love, love these. The understated, impassioned tone in #87 made me catch my breath. 

Beautiful work, AC.  

 

You know how much I appreciate "Beautiful," so thank you. I'm happy you read these, and love always the feedback. Kisses  :kiss:

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MichaelS36

Both amazing, wonderful.  tim often tells me 'no one writes men in love like AC'  and he is correct. I tire of hearing how dull and ignorant men are.  We are not, we are complex and can share deep and abiding love with others.  We can see beauty in each other, and in our world.  Your poetry proves this to me, each time I read something from you.  Thank you AC. 

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On 6/16/2018 at 2:07 PM, MichaelS36 said:

Both amazing, wonderful.  tim often tells me 'no one writes men in love like AC'  and he is correct. I tire of hearing how dull and ignorant men are.  We are not, we are complex and can share deep and abiding love with others.  We can see beauty in each other, and in our world.  Your poetry proves this to me, each time I read something from you.  Thank you AC. 

Thank you for these amazing comments, Mike. You are right, much of the human beauty in the world comes from our natural instincts as men to protect, build and celebrate. To think otherwise would be to ignore the finer sentiments in the male of our species entirely, which would be a perjured view (IMO ;) ) But maybe I'm biased... hehe

 

Thanks for the support. I really appreciate it!  

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