Beautiful
Beautiful
by Jazmine Mussington
Bare back
Curves on
Bare sheets
Bones break
From the spine
Bitter lover
Bites down
Harder
Each time
Our lips
Meet
Bone thin
Fingers blindly
Explores my sex
Until I am
Breathless
Our lips are
Broken as she
Beckons me
To go
Under the sheets
To bless her
With my
Belligerent tongue
All beneficial
To her
I await
Her pleasure lullaby
Bereaved of my own
She finally begins to moan
Bare back
Curves on
Bare sheets
Bones break
From the spine
As she regurgitates
My name
And spews it
Onto my body
But when we break it’s best I slip out uncovered. . .
The ‘L-word’–lesbian; the other ‘L-word’–lesbians. I loved the perspective here with same sex sex lips meeting and fingers exploring. We hear a lot of the man/woman hook-ups, and i’m sure much is the same, but i think when women love each other and make love to one another that it’s unique and yes…’Beautiful’.
I appreciated the short lines like a quick invigorated breathing possessed with passion and exhuberant release. Poem is very expressive with word-combos like ‘Belligerent tongue’, ‘pleasure lullaby’; and phrases: ‘Bones break From the spine’.
Nice climax (literally) with ending of poem where lover moans and “regurgitates My name And spews it Onto my body.” I was ready for the poem to end there and would have been happy with that. But then comes the addendum: “But when we break it’s best I slip out uncovered. . .” At first i wondered if this extra sentence, sort of a personal aside from the poet, was really needed and did anything for the poem as a whole. Hmm. It’s still working it’s way into the crevices of my artistic ‘wonder-niche’. Given, that’s quite an image to ‘slip out uncovered’ and it almost has me believing there’s a double-meaning to ‘uncovered’ as if the author has bared all in this festive love session both physically and soulfully. So, yes, the side-note at end is getting me wondering and adds another dimension to poem–gutsy move! I like it.
Thanks for sharing Jazmine!
…And very appropriate pics i would say! Good choice editor!