Rapture Poem by Andrew Barber

Rapture is a bitter sweet story of sensuality that finds its raison d’être from an essay I wrote some time ago called Departure!

The poem, like the essay on which it is based, carries far deeper metaphor than that found on the surface – but I plan to leave the digging to your will, as you may see no reason to stretch further than that which lays at the surface.

The peoms sensuality is in no way corrupt by exposure to lewd phrase. I prefer the romance of obvious but carefully seductive lines that lap gently in tease. For me, the course tumbling of the crude and the obvious somehow removes the romantic essence of the scene.

I am not the biggest fan of the ACBD rhyming scheme (the first and third and the second and fourth lines rhyme) . For one, it can lead to the rhythm becoming somewhat predictable. But sometimes it just fits, and this is a piece than needed a wave to carry lines in rise and fall of its delivery.

Rapture can be as deep or as shallow as you wish, but I like most the essence of a breathless moment caught between lovers, two hearts in blaze and never to be parted. But then I am a romantic with a love of happy endings!