Your Kiss (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(After Rosa Smit)

Every time when your breath is right against my cheek
I smell you like peppermint when you do come near,
you ban from my being and heart all darkness,
around us things happen that leaves me dumbstruck.
Swarms of doves flutter down everywhere around us,
the streets are full of children running up and down,
in the bright day blue-white thunder falls suddenly,
around us the world goes on but things are running wild.
Every time that your soft hot lips do find mine,
I see the whole cosmos in your green-brown eyes,
for moments I am blinded for all other things,
to your soul, spirit and body you give me ability,
it's as if the entire world around us comes to a halt,
when we do understand each other to the deepest as mere humans.

[Reference:"Die kus" (The kiss)by Rosa Smit.Poet's note:The statue named "the kiss" that was completed in 1889 by the sculptor François Auguste René Rodin has also got meaning to this poem.]

© Gert Strydom