How Green is My Love

[Dark Muse]

How Green is My Love

You lie me down
among sweet meadow grasses,
green is the color of this Earth
in which our bodies, naked sink
down into each other.

Once quoth Shakespeare:
"Green indeed is the color of lovers...."
and your lips tender, sensual,
caress against mine while eager
hands explore yielding flesh.

Some say green is greed,
and how hungrily I devour you,
wrap myself around you
in the need to have all of you,
every inch to touch, to see,
to kiss, to possess.

Green is envy, monster they say
of jealousy and what truth,
for your heart I alone would hold,
to have you entirely as my own,
only my lips will know your taste,
only my arms hold you close,
and only me your eyes will see.

But above all, green is constancy,
that I am yours beyond eternity,
and it is my heart which beats inside you,
I am yours utterly and completely,
for me there can only be you,
only you.

[The Highwayman]

Wow, I'm loving the green. This is a beautiful poem. The imagery is lush and the word usage is very nice as well.

[Dark Muse]

Thank you very much

[The Highwayman]

You're very welcome! If there is ever a contest for poetry on here, you should definitely enter this one! Maybe someday I'll gather up the courage to post some of my poetry.

[Nicoletta]

I happened to think the narrator was actually a bit of moss taking over a fallen tree, and now I can't think of it any other way. This was nice.

[Dark Muse]

I happened to think the narrator was actually a bit of moss taking over a fallen tree, and now I can't think of it any other way. This was nice.

That is an interesting way of looking at it.

[Melanie]

...If there is ever a contest for poetry on here, you should definitely enter this one! Maybe someday I'll gather up the courage to post some of my poetry.
Dark Muse - Beautiful poem!

Highwayman - There are a lot of poetry contests but they are difficult to find for a new person. Dark Muse is very active there so you can read more of her poetry there. On the main forum page click on "Personal Poetry" in the "Writing" category. Then click on the "Sub-Forum" at the top that says "Poetry Games and Contests". When you get there, the first 3 are old and no longer active. Scroll down and you will see the contests. There are no cash prizes. The "prizes" are opportunities to post the next inspiration and then judge the poems when the deadline arrives. I find that the process motivates and inspires me to write poetry which is enough of a prize for me. Another way to find the poetry contests is to enter "poetry contest" in the "search box".

[veganpoet]

Very entrancing poem! I am green with envy! You are very talented!

[Dark Muse]

Thank you!

[angliholic]

Now I am green all over after reading your beautiful sensual work of art

[Lykren]

Hmm... this is lucid and facile enough, with no obviously misplaced words, which is certainly an accomplishment. But I'm not really getting anything in particular out of the poem. It doesn't put me into the same feeling you are describing, somehow. I know that's a vague complaint, and I don't have any particular advice for you, other than to perhaps think more carefully about the emotion you want to convey, and then see what subtleties you can dig into. I hope that doesn't sound arrogant; I'm just trying to chip in my two cents. And above all: keep writing!

[virtuoso]

The positive and negative attributes of "green" are encapsulated in this, entrancing poem. Green could also represent vibrancy and fertility. Maybe you could incorporate a stanza on this topic in your poem. You could use a comma after "while" in stanza two. A delightful poem you have penned!