On this valentine’s night
In the soft glow of candlelight
Hold me close
Set my heartache free
Whisper my name
Silence my wistful sighs
Seduce me with your tongue
Capture my soul
With your silken cords
Let us dance
This sensual collaboration
An intimate sonnet of entwinement
With no beginning or ending
Skin to skin
Flesh to flesh
Merging in empathic union
A poetry of passionate rhythm
Bowing in submission to ecstasy
Velvet caverns effuse
The essence of sacred emotion
Come drink of me
Like a fine wine
Love me into forever
© L. Kupfer
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Light a single candle
Watch
How the tapered flame dances
Now don’t breathe
Don’t whisper
Watch
How the dance slows
And the flame becomes perfectly still
Then
Only in that perfect stillness
Will you know
This is what it sounds like
To be deaf
Drop a single pebble into a pond
Watch
How the ripples spread outward
Now don’t move
Don’t look away
Watch
How the ripples gradually disperse
Until the watery surface becomes perfectly quiet
Then
Only in that perfect quietness
Will you know
This is what it sounds like
To be deaf
Follow the flight of an eagle
Watch
How its mighty wings conquer the heights
Now don’t look away
Don’t blink
Watch
How she floats in the air perfectly motionless
Then
Only in that perfect motionlessness
Will you know
This is what it sounds like
To be deaf
Enter a windowless room
Watch
As all the lights and LEDs are turned off
Now don’t panic
Don’t close your eyes
Watch
How the room becomes perfectly dark
Then
Only in that perfect darkness
Will you know
This is what it sounds like
To be deaf
Consider those visuals
See
How silence envelopes me
Now do you understand
Do you comprehend
Hear
The stillness…quietness..motionlessness…darkness..
Then
Only in that silence
Will you know
This is what it sounds like
To be deaf
©L. Kupfer
all rights reserved
Soar the skies, Blithe Spirit
With wings bathed
In malines of sunlight
Your shadow
A fulminate dance of aerial glory
Evanescently painted on clouds
Glide
In graceful obliquity
To your engagement with destiny
Beyond earth’s succulent horizon
Your magnamious flight
Forever
A celebration of freedom
©Lynn Kupfer
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