Embraced Poem by Lonnie Hicks

My eyes devoured her
took her hungrily;
she watched;
watching me wanting her
in that instant where
time dances slowly,

where breathing
rises like an ocean wave
and then comes
crashing
upon the Soul's Shore;
jets of emotional eddies
swirling.

Her chest fills with air;
her breasts
reach out, expanding
toward me

where my eyes
meet hers;
two surges merge;

her breasts
meet my chest
mingling
long repressed
Furtive Desire
and Urgent Opportunity.

I move beside her
but still within vision.

She stands stock still
her profile in my eyes
rises and falls

on an ocean of Flailing Anticipation;
lunging, cresting
and finally crashing
on that quivering shore
where the Soul's Soul lives;
for we are beyond Soul itself
to the Spiritual.

She invited my look
drinking in my steady gaze;
still as a twilight's
summer stars.

I moved again
outside her vision
behind her,
her back a creamy canvass
awaiting the artists brush-
my finger-tip-
on skin blushed;
with butterfly warm breaths-
lips- settling on her neck
pulsating
volcano-hot.


My Heart-
first a suitor-
is now a slave;

backhand tracing
across spaghetti strap
lined shoulders;

she
moves backward
against my bare chest
nestling there
for the Soul-Fit;

reaching back
we finger-tip to finger-tip
touch the touch which satisfies,
All Longing.

With one hand
behind and below
she makes contact
with my Sincerity
and I am hers forever.

We move in this dance
in this
our first
full-throated
embrace;
transformed.

All gravity evaporates
in the melting light
and joined
we surge
into the Intimacy
Transfixed.