A TOUCHING ARRANGEMENT (photo) & PROXIMITY (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

PROXIMITY

a sexy younger man and I hold each other
close everywhere we go; it's very exciting
and a lot of fun, too; it all started with
him just leaning a bit toward me each
time we'd meet up as if backed by a brief
burst of wind, even as I held back; then
the leaning gradually became mutual
and ultimately advanced quickly into this
holding each other on-the-move; leading me
to finally understand what some men mean
when they reply to their woman's question
"So why the hell did you sleep with that other
woman?!" with one word "Proximity...,"
and shrugging like embarrassed little boys;
yeah, before this delicious guy in my arms,
I'd been deeply hooked for way too long
on yearning after a man who was rarely
around, and all it's taken to redirect
that intense attachment of my passionate
longing? an intriguing, sexy man who has been
around and kept moving closer to boot
no matter my self-protective habit of distance,
until now we find ourselves here, naked
and embracing in front of a large wall mirror:
see!? this is where the real connection gets
made, not in the mind's yearning, not even
in its sometimes magical reaches,
but in the proximity of bodies


[free verse poem on a dream of 11-14-17. Photo "A Touching Arrangement" (11-9-17 006v3) by Roswila]

PLEASE NOTE: in most browsers you can click on the above image for a larger version. Also, the photo accompanying a post is not necessarily meant to illustrate it, but to reflect some small, even slant aspect of the verse, similar to Japanese haiga (illustrated haiku).

There are many other sorts of posts on this blog. I indicate which are about or influenced by dreams. Some non dream focused posts are book reviews, "regular" poems (some by other writers), scifaiku, writing exercises, Tarot haiku, photos, haiga, and so on. However, most of those are in much older posts. There's a listing by month going back to early 2006, at the end of the sidebar.

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until next time, keep dreaming,

[a/k/a Patricia Kelly]
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