Thursday 5 May 2016

Silence

A silence
That looms between us
Hanging around like summer air
Hot, humid and stifling
Relationship or not
Illicit or what
Melancholy hanging in the air
Hot, humid and stifling
I taste smoke on your lips
As your hands trace my silhouette
The silence still
Hot, humid and stifling
A joke here, a nugget there
The new music you heard
A good book that I read
A steely silence thereafter
Hot, humid and stifling
I seek the reasons of our togetherness
All I hear is silence still
Hanging around us
Like a dull ache

Hot, humid and stifling 


9 comments:

  1. Eerie. Sometimes the silence screams. This poem is a melancholic beauty.

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  2. Breath taking and compelling:)

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  3. Back here after a really long time and to such a wonderful poignant piece!

    Beautiful flow of words that break the heart.

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  4. Silence is not golden all the times... contemplative poem... :-)

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  5. Powerful!- Hot,humid and stifling...

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  6. I love the silence "hanging around like summer air". Great line! And then the "dull ache." I have known that silence, it speaks volumes and is painful to live through.

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  7. An amazingly wonderful atmosphere has been created in your poem!
    Loved the refrain 'hot, humid and stifling'...it imparts so much depth.

    And yes, a great intro too!

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  8. I think there is a reason why a prefer cool summers... thank you for confirming.

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