{"id":23297,"date":"2022-05-03T16:55:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T11:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/?p=23297"},"modified":"2022-05-04T14:39:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T09:09:20","slug":"two-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/two-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Poems: ‘Stepwells’ & ‘In the Dimly Lit Room’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stepwells<\/strong><\/p>\n

You left moist imprints on my shirt,<\/p>\n

tugging at my navel<\/p>\n

with your sensuous interruptions.<\/p>\n

When you made soft designs<\/p>\n

around there<\/p>\n

with the edge of your lips,<\/p>\n

my body tingled<\/p>\n

and sighs fulfilled us.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Leaning your head<\/p>\n

to linger on my chest,<\/p>\n

you practised your first notes<\/p>\n

of liberation<\/p>\n

at dawn<\/p>\n

and accepted me<\/p>\n

as your paramour,<\/p>\n

on that day<\/p>\n

when peacocks<\/p>\n

unfurled their plumage<\/p>\n

to enter the garden.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Cold fingers,<\/p>\n

sometimes circling right,<\/p>\n

sometimes left,<\/p>\n

made delicate forms<\/p>\n

to quench desires<\/p>\n

and draw sighs before<\/p>\n

a noontime nap.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A moment<\/p>\n

that gives the body<\/p>\n

fragrance of flowers,<\/p>\n

its brightness<\/p>\n

and lies<\/p>\n

on the other shore<\/p>\n

of unkempt desires.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Just like on a misty morning,<\/p>\n

we both<\/p>\n

sit<\/p>\n

without a shred of adornment<\/p>\n

on these ancient stepwells<\/p>\n

and the call of the hummingbirds<\/p>\n

offer us sensations,<\/p>\n

imagination,<\/p>\n

and our innocence<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In the Dimly Lit Room<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shift the cot away to the east<\/p>\n

but don’t break the aura of silence<\/p>\n

in this dimly lit room.<\/p>\n

Sometimes you tend to place your feet<\/p>\n

on my chest<\/p>\n

and sometimes you hold me tight<\/p>\n

around the shoulders.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

The day wears on.<\/p>\n

Your habits get colder.<\/p>\n

Then you<\/p>\n

use the soft delicacy of your lips<\/p>\n

to caress my nape<\/p>\n

and shoulders<\/p>\n

and the passion trickles down<\/p>\n

my whole wet body.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I,<\/p>\n

slumped like the evergreen<\/p>\n

compliant lad<\/p>\n

under your impulses,<\/p>\n

sigh.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Then I cover your upturned face<\/p>\n

with the pillow<\/p>\n

and curse you.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Don’t knot away your bundle<\/p>\n

of impulsive desires on my navel,<\/p>\n

is all I ask.<\/p>\n

Drench me in the humid moisture<\/p>\n

of this town.<\/p>\n

Don’t let me wander<\/p>\n

thereafter<\/p>\n

in the sludge<\/p>\n

of your bedraggled,<\/p>\n

worn out excesses.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Cover Image: Pixabay<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just like on a misty morning,
\nwe both
\nsit
\nwithout a shred of adornment
\non these ancient stepwells
\nand the call of the hummingbirds
\noffer us sensations,
\nimagination,
\nand our innocence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":424,"featured_media":23336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3401,3573],"tags":[619,66,3608,364,71,2568,3611,2673,3609,3610,68,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-23297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-categories","8":"category-fiction-poetry","9":"category-movement-and-sexuality","10":"tag-bodies","11":"tag-desire","12":"tag-erotic-poetry","13":"tag-erotica","14":"tag-love","15":"tag-movement","16":"tag-paramour","17":"tag-passion","18":"tag-poems","19":"tag-sensuousness","20":"tag-sex","21":"tag-sexualities"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23297"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23364,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23297\/revisions\/23364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}