About Your Skin Poem by Tony Jolley

About Your Skin

Rating: 4.5


What is it about your skin?
I touch you and it is as natural as breathing,
As right as being
That I don’t even have to think about it.
It’s not about conscious or subconscious:
Just about us.

Wonder whether Adam knew Eve
With such insouciant tenderness:
Love in a unique completeness;
Whether what we feel has ever been felt
By anyone in this life, anywhere, anywhen.
Like being deep in a natural forest
Wondering whether anyone has ever set their foot
Beneath my soles,
If he or she had ever wondered whether
Anyone would ever follow in their footsteps: -
A virgin moment:
Unbroken snow
Stretching to History’s horizon
In all directions;
A whole world:
Our world;
Populated only by the desires of our hearts
And our limitless imaginations
Of the infinite possibilities
Of you
And me.

A whole world.
Our world.
My world.
Your skin.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Kevin Wells 08 July 2008

Still in love, eh? You old romantic. And good for you, that's what I say. Hey! ....when ya gonna answer my e-mails? ? ?

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Cecil (cj) Krieger 25 March 2009

Without a doubt... this is a wonderful peice of writing

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Original Unknown Girl 24 February 2009

Sigh... this is so tender, I'll bet your lady was aglow with happiness after she read this. The love very obviously glows from every word sewn together here. HG: -) xx

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Colin Jeffery 16 July 2008

You are indeed a poet of merit. Brilliant.

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Viola Grey 10 July 2008

I love that in this romance it feels as though you are the only ones who exsist...much like Adam and Eve...such beautiful notions written here...great work.

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Austen Bradford 08 July 2008

This is absolutely gorgeous! What a wonderfully sensual poem

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