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Seducer He moves as
midnight moves
dark and creeping,
casting shadows
where he stands.
And in the
light, I crouched,
afraid and awkward.
Hotly dreaming
in his darkness, his desires
as he moved his liquid lies.
I descended in into his deception,
caught in the grey areas
those bruises
of purple and blue.
And
yet
we formed
a perfect yin/ yang
white and black, light and dark
the perfect half of the other’s
good and bad.
Morning Regret
He is an enigma,
all liquid lies,
fluid and formless,
as is he.
He moves
softly, seductively
in darkness.
Descending
as clarity with the morning sun.
A mistake
you’ve made,
as you lie in his sheets,
in the smoke of him,
the breath of him,
inhaled as your own
for a night.
Lover
Sunlight
glimpses
the room,
briefly.
Like a lover
she once had
that warms and enlivens
then disappears as
night darkens and cools.
And her anxieties
mushroom
in the shadows,
grow in damp suspicion.
Until she reaches
for the roots
and yanks them out,
forcing her fears
into the light.
And he comes crawling back
on stumbling knee.
Needing a little
more of mommy
to face his own
anxieties, and the world once more.
Midnight
He moves
as
midnight moves.
Softly creeping
In the shadows,
greying into
hushes and whispers
in
the half light.
It is in
the frailness of the light:
when amber
oils to deepest black
swallowing
all
the smudges and bruises:
the blue and purple shadows,
that night
finally descends.
Folds
its raven wings,
perching on its
crow like feet,
forgetting tomorrow
in the deep swallow of the light.
Morning
sits and wonders
shutters at its fragility.
The tenuous hold
of the light.
Linda has published over 75 poems in journals across Canada, the United
States and the U.K.. The poems have appeared in Journals like, Descant, Dana Literary Society, Amethyst Review, Write On,
Sepia Poetry Magazine, New Mirage Quarterly, The Kaleidocope Review, Canadian Writer's Journal, Pink Chameleon and Fullosia
Press. One of her poems received an award from Dana Literary Society. She also published a chapbook, called "Life's Little
Lessons" 2 summers ago that featured 26 poems.
She has also published a short story in Happy, and a story
in Characters.
Woolven@sympatico.ca
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