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your words are syrup

by Melissa Arel


your words stick to my fingers like syrup
they taste maple-sweet as i lick
the remainder of your sentences from my lips.

pour your paragraphs onto my skin
covering every inch of me with your poetics.

we can whisper luscious sonnets all night long
and in the flowing thickness of the morning
i'll wake to kiss your amber-dripping eyes, like commas.



09/13/2007

Posted on 09/14/2007
Copyright © 2024 Melissa Arel

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Gabriel Ricard on 09/14/07 at 03:49 AM

What's not to like about this? Especially the first stanza. Great images, great lines.

Posted by Tony Whitaker on 09/14/07 at 08:42 AM

This one gave me all kinds of images. I feel the need to wash my hands. Powerful images from the use of "syrup" and all its charactersistics...

Posted by Ken Harnisch on 09/18/07 at 03:45 AM

Sometimes words are so delicious they leave me speechless and hungering at the same time. This is one of those times.

Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 10/06/07 at 11:05 AM

this poem is so tender and loving and artful and a delight to read, as it offers those two tidbits of delectable surprises at the end -----like commas.

Posted by Carolyn Coville on 11/07/07 at 04:14 AM

mmmm absolutely delicious!

Posted by Kathleen Wilson on 11/10/07 at 02:05 AM

oh, sigh... such is the poetic life... I feel like this all the time...you have said it so well!

Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 01/21/09 at 04:54 PM

Congrats on POTD!

Posted by Dave Fitzgerald on 01/21/09 at 05:38 PM

Congratulations. Great write.

Posted by Meghan Helmich on 01/21/09 at 07:59 PM

congrats on potd. that last stanza is a very good one. might i suggest dropping the 'like' in the title? anything can be 'like' syrup...i want you to TELL me that the words are syrup ;)

Posted by Charles E Minshall on 01/21/09 at 08:04 PM

Wow! Mel. Congratulations on poem of the day. Very sweet.....CharMin

Posted by Ken Harnisch on 01/21/09 at 10:11 PM

Sweeter the second time around..Congrats on a well-chosen POTD, Mel

Posted by Shonda Creemer on 01/22/09 at 12:43 AM

YAY Mel!!!!! Congrats on POTD. Totally love every inch of this piece. :)

Posted by Maria Massarella on 01/22/09 at 02:04 PM

Congratulations on POTD! Mel, your words are maple-syrup-sweet. luscious...

Posted by Jolie Jordan on 05/19/15 at 12:21 AM

Whoa, this rules. It's sexy in a sapiosexual kinda way.

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