–verb (used with object)
1. to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain.
2. to worry or annoy excessively.
3. to throw into commotion; stir up; disturb.
–noun
4. a state of great bodily or mental suffering; agony; misery.
5. something that causes great bodily or mental pain or suffering.
6. a source of much trouble, worry, or annoyance.
7. an instrument of torture, as the rack or the thumbscrew.
8. the infliction of torture by means of such an instrument or the torture so inflicted.
I will admit it:
I did hesitate
Surfing on the edge
Reason or folly
Keeping it or not
Keeping it. Or not.
It had met your lips
And I was jealous
But also your teeth
Its flesh marred, broken
Rot a breath away
It had met your lips
Its scent too haunting
Truly maddening
To be forsaken
Tormenting notion.
It going to waste
It had met your lips:
That did seal its fate.
I couldn’t let go.
I ate your apple
Your abandoned kiss
Our shared memory.
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14 comments:
I like your take on this image. Nice Magpie :)
Wow! This is intense, creative and a very nice read.
Very nice! A poem with more poems peeing out of it.
I like this very much, nice writing-
'Its flesh marred, broken
Rot a breath away'
Good magpie!
Susannah
http://panopticulated.blogspot.com/
Beautifully written, Nathalie.
Great Magpie! :-)
very nice. i like the comparison between the biting of the apple and the kiss...one step from rot...smiles. nice mag!
well done- I especially like
"It had met your lips:
That did seal its fate."
Well done..just to be in the aura of what the lover touches..
lovely!
well done!
gorgeous - love seeing when folks go beyond the obvious...
Lovely jealously.
Oh, yes! Abandoned kiss - a vivid image.
I liked the way you placed the words on the image. The typography made them twice as effective.
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