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feeling the cold

by Laura Doom

we fickle flakes
maligned as flirts
afloat as fallen angels
clutching parachutes

each swirl of cloud
a shroud of musk
unique to our convention
unnatural selection

beneath your ice-blue sky
we sparkle without shame
like celebrity teeth
miming confessions

wish us melt away to slush
before our fusion can corrupt
idyllic regimes of romance
in winsome white-washed wonderlands

someday
we will choose to burn
for our transgressions
but while the cold persists
we'll flaunt our flesh
between blank sheets, in drifts
of moral indiscretion.

12/24/2008

Posted on 12/24/2008
Copyright © 2024 Laura Doom

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Gabriel Ricard on 12/24/08 at 06:20 AM

Moral indiscretion can be fun. Brilliant, beautiful work. I am in constant awe of the imagery that seems to roll off you with ease.

Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 12/24/08 at 04:12 PM

My mien pursues the infinity of your mind, Miss Doom, and this parachute will always be open for the hand that flicks your pen and fills such exquisite parallel creativity into our/my world.

Posted by Anita Mac on 12/25/08 at 04:40 AM

I'm still getting over angels w/ parachutes. I think the burning may be the climax, all the rest is foreplay. Well done.

Posted by Rula Shin on 12/26/08 at 02:23 AM

Unbeliebably well written Laura, truly. Beautiful yet fiery from top to bottom, head to toe. Kudos!

Posted by Kathleen Wilson on 01/04/09 at 06:28 PM

Playfulness abounds, need deep it's now the indignity of the everywhere unabashed intrusion of cold and it's crystalized impression upon us and all. Uncovered the trangressive nature and of the fallen. The surprising (sensible)leaps of imagination, the breaking into almost rhyming, one of my favorite displays of restrained passion, the "moral indiscretion" is perfect for the non descriminating natural event. The unusual presides. I love the early "flakes" (taken both ways and "flirts" and the later "flaunt our flesh" too.

Posted by Quentin S Clingerman on 01/09/09 at 02:03 AM

Excellent use of analogy. Significant religious allusions. Very well written.

Posted by Clara Mae Gregory on 01/24/15 at 02:19 PM

*Brilliant*

Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 01/27/15 at 04:11 PM

An alchemist - only you can make heat from such cold.

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