Seductive Softness Poem by Jonathan ROBIN

Sustaining sunlit sheet on forest floor,
curves fondle fronds whose silkiness she shares.
Enchanting vision dancing, free from care,
where carelessness seduces all the more.
What matter if awe-struck stranger at life's door
admiring stares, rare Beauty knows she's fair,
glows, sensing those who view her covert swear
they'd peek beneath sleek surface, seek soft core,
dare bloom's brief flush blush before tomb's bluff score
is called, hoar flesh links shrink to lord knows where!
Thus Beauty, Truth, both stimulate, despair
Time's rushlight climb pales, stalls, fails, falls. Pall's sure.
Swift thoughts through soul-star system ripple, river,
find mind at sea, skin shivers all a-quiver.

25 August 1991 revised 12 October 2008,14 December 2008 and 22 October 2021

rushlight: a tallow candle with a rush stem as the wick
for previous versions entitled Softness which Seduces see below

Relaying sunlight sheet on forest floor,
curves fondling fronds whose silkiness she shares,
sweet softness which seduces, knows no cares,
and, careless, thus seduces all the more.
What matter if love-struck stranger at life's door
admiring stares, rare Beauty knows she's fair,
glows knowing those around her dare to swear
they'd seek 'neath skin deep corps to reach soft core,
for flowers bloom an hour before the score
is called and flesh departs to - lord knows where!
If Beauty's Truth, both stimulate despair
seen through Time's rushlight nothing can restore.
Blush thoughts through soul-star system ripple, river,
find mind at sea, skin shivers all a-quiver.


25 August 1991 revised 12 October 2008 and 14 December 2008

for previous versions see below

Softness which Seduces

Spread as sunlight sheet on forest floor,
curves hugging rug whose silkiness she shares,
a softness which seduces, knows no cares,
and, careless, thus seduces all the more.
What matter if love-struck stranger at life's door
admiring watches, Beauty knows she's fair,
glows discovering those around her dare
to seek 'neath skin deep corps to reach soft core,
for flowers bloom an hour before the score
is called and flesh departs to - lord knows where!
If Beauty's Truth, both stimulate despair
seen in Time's rushlight nothing will restore.
Blush thoughts through soul-star system ripple, river,
find mind at sea, skin shivers all a-quiver.


25 August 1991 revised 12 October 2008
for previous version see below


A Softness which Seduces


Spread like a sheet of sunlight on the floor,
curved round the rug whose silkiness she'd share,
a softness which seduces without care,
and, careless, thus seduces all the more.
What matter if the stranger at the door
observes the scene, as Beauty knows she's fair,
and glows to find that those around her dare
to seek beneath the corps to reach the core,
for flowers bloom an hour before the score
is called and flesh departs to - lord knows where!
If Beauty's Truth, then Truth can cause despair
Seen in Time's light which nothing will restore.
Vain thoughts throughout the system send a shiver,
Leave mind at sea, find body all a-quiver.

25 August 1991