Soulfruit

version 1

I taste you like a peach
sweet juice trickles to my chin

I bite you like an Apple
your crisp laughter fills my ears

I devour you like a strawberry
tart and succulent on my tongue

I drink you like thick nectar
you flow rich into my soul

I desire you completely
longing to be fulfilled

I consume you wholly
flushed with wanton pleasure

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version 2

my mouth on you
soft
like a peach

you glisten
trickle from my lips

I bite you
sweet
like an apple

your hushed breath
staccato crisp

you taste
tart as a strawberry
succulent
as love’s nectar

a delicious
wanton pleasure

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rob kistner © 2010

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38 thoughts on “Soulfruit”

    1. I got swept up Viv… blame it on Tess at Willow Manor, and her photo at Magpie Tales of that tart, sweet, juicy apple — with the bite out of it… and then Jill, over at Big Tent Poetry, suggested to us that we, in the spirit of Susan Wooldridge, collect words from our daily life this week… and they are just beginning to pick the fruit in the orchards of Hood River, Oregon (where we visited this week)… and all the fruit barns and stands along the drive were brimming over with their fresh and succulent… and my wife Kathy and I spent a romantic night in a bed & breakfast out there in the Columbia Gorge (strawberries & cream at sunrise)… and well, this poem just happened…

      …rob 😉

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  9. “trickle from my lips”…… Oh my. Reading this delicious poem makes my taste buds get that funny feeling inside my cheeks! Honeycrisp, here I come!

    Rick

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    1. There may be a lot more of us guys with a romantic side than is realized, its just that we are likely not all writers/poets — and this elevated sentiment is difficult to express face to face, so we just grunt, and it;s sadly left unsaid…

      …rob

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