……
Your indigo kiss,
….
cool in the light
of a blood moon
rising, your patchouli
love, like a breeze
on a sea of sunflower
blossoms surrounded
by cliffs of turtle shells
and lapis lazuli, is soft
like a drop of awareness
on my forehead, as I
close my eyes to the bright
truth of springtime and fathom
the looming chasm between us.
…..
This poem is from the book My Blue Sweetie by Neal Zirn (Finishing Line Press), and is available at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/my-blue-sweetie-by-neal-zirn/
My Blue Sweetie is an assemblage of #poems that center around #relationships with women involving romance, secrets, melancholy, desire, nostalgia, abandonment, and love, often told with humor, delicacy, and, at times, a tinge of the metaphysical. The poems have been carefully crafted, are accessible, and, most of all, contain an energy that beckons the reader to enter their own, interior world and discover what he or she shares in common with the author.
Neal Zirn has been published in numerous journals in the United States and Canada. He is an award-winning poet, painter, and printmaker as well as a dedicated tai chi practitioner.
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