Torte

[ampoule]

Torte

Shhh...come with me now.
Like sprites we hop around each other.
Let us go run into the woods, hiding together.
I stumble, breathless, covering my mouth to stifle my silly giggles.
I watch you stand, dropping all of your rewards to the cold, hard reality,
and you take my hand, pulling me up, saying,
I've shown you mine, now show me yours.

Shhh...stop it now.
I stammer and blush for I am shy, sorry
I started this game because I don't really want to play,
I was just kidding, but you are serious now, stepping forward,
pleading my truth with your eyes, patiently I hear your breath, in and out,
so slowly, and I reach for the button at my neck,
not to tease, but to wait for you to take it all in.

Shhh...don't cry, I hear you say.
I see in your face though, each layer removed,
wonderment, disgust, even laughter, tears perhaps,
Clinging to that final veil, your soft words help it slip from my shoulders,
and it floats to the ground like a feather caught upon the wind, my eyes closed,
afraid to look to see if you are still there,
the sweet slice cut forever now.
.
.
ampoule, January First, TwoThousandEight

[firefangled]

Torte

Shhh...come with me now.
Like sprites we hop around each other.
Let us go run into the woods, hiding together.
I stumble, breathless, covering my mouth to stifle my silly giggles.
I watch you stand, dropping all of your rewards to the cold, hard reality,
and you take my hand, pulling me up, saying,
I've shown you mine, now show me yours.

Shhh...stop it now.
I stammer and blush for I am shy, sorry
I started this game because I don't really want to play,
I was just kidding, but you are serious now, stepping forward,
pleading my truth with your eyes, patiently I hear your breath, in and out,
so slowly, and I reach for the button at my neck,
not to tease, but to wait for you to take it all in.

Shhh...don't cry, I hear you say.
I see in your face though, each layer removed,
wonderment, disgust, even laughter, tears perhaps,
Clinging to that final veil, your soft words help it slip from my shoulders,
and it floats to the ground like a feather caught upon the wind, my eyes closed,
afraid to look to see if you are still there,
the sweet slice cut forever now.
.
.
ampoule, January First, TwoThousandEight

Amazing!! If this is a sign of the poetry of the coming year, it's going to be a good year.

I cannot imagine what you edited, it is so perfect. The last line was like a stick of dynamite. Bravo! Bravo!

[Sweets America]

I love it!! I love it!!
It reads very well, the flow is very nice.

[TheFifthElement]

Lovely poem ampoule, with your characteristic hint of sadness just bubbling under the surface waiting to make me cry. But it not only reads beautifully, it looks beautiful too.

[PrinceMyshkin]

I am breathtook and all I can say is thank goodness for the ou of your name because you - or at least your poetry - is so much more than ample!

[CdnReader]

Amazing, Amp! Thanks! :D

[ampoule]

You are all WAY too generous with me, and reading your responses, not to just my poems, but everyone's, is often better than the poems themselves.

[PrinceMyshkin]

You are all WAY too generous with me, and reading your responses, not to just my poems, but everyone's, is often better than the poems themselves.

'Specially one like this


Crunchy, one of those you think you need to add more sugar to, but you won't because the box says there's enough for any palate.


Practically a poem in itself!

[motherhubbard]

Amp, you really captured a revealing moment there. You spoke the words that no one is brave enough to say. I know that moment and the accompanying feeling too well. You could have gone on to what happened next and given relief to the nervous tension, but it would have ruined it.

[AuntShecky]

This piece really takes the cake
(in a good way, I mean.)

[ampoule]

Thank you MH and Auntie. Your comments and that you read mean a lot!

[PrinceMyshkin]

Thank you MH and Auntie. Your comments and that you read mean a lot!

And that tells me where I stand, to quote someone or other!

[ampoule]

And that tells me where I stand, to quote someone or other!

TOO-SHAY ;) ;)