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Funfair
Posters – depicting your attraction
were long ago hollered and rolled up
into human curiosity of loquacity.
Sights and signs remain crystal bright.
The fortune teller sees to that.
How I strip teased round ribboned pole
winding that prize in disguise was the yow
I knew. Then not chosen to be May queen,
I helter skeltered to hate, heal, redeem
tortured by silence amongst the crowd.
Saturday 31st May 2014 8:38 am
Crest
Deep. Deep in thelemic thought, her
words spill sour, salted by a power
that cowers and spits, shoaling rocks
into desolate fetch, coveting a polyandry.
Exiled. Exiled she lies, and lies. Coursed
and cobbled. Smooth blissful pebbles
that awake wrecked memories, and hopes
of calm oceans being neither here or there.
Caught. Caught in a squall ‘twix...
Saturday 26th October 2013 1:46 pm
Transit
Unsure, Unopposed
lying in my arms
fleeting captivity
of bittersweet blossom
transient beauty as it falls
melting into the ground
and you’re gone
© Katypoetess 2013
Saturday 28th September 2013 7:57 am
Ouroborus
I
Maybe - it was just sex and poetry passing through your modus operandi.
I am no Rossetti, Dickenson or Plath. My heart hung in front of my heroines.
Emotions could rival, but words brew clumsy and fall cumbersome at their feet.
Ink spurts and spills from between my legs, puddling and muddying an
indiscression from the master’s muse. Brooding time in surburban solicit...
Saturday 14th September 2013 7:52 am
The Best
If I had that chance, I would keep giving you The best.
Love making - hot tea served so dutifully, as I gently
steam each dream to wake you. Morning Molton Brown bath
with warm Christy towel to wrap around fervid hips after
I wash and caress every complex that doesn’t need cleansing.
When meeting your neuroses, I would heed the grumbles
chuntering a nonsense, that...
Saturday 7th September 2013 10:11 am
Voyeur
Moon beckons a beacon for the night demon’s path. Comfort strewn by creaks
of cooling corners in the bedroom. Dutiful goodnight kisses obligate a renewed
commitment to freshly etched, stone set commandments of the marriage rite.
Left alone, he clicks familiar websites, browsing history carefully kept out of sight.
Easing tension transiently until eyes hit on a caress of a photo...
Saturday 24th August 2013 7:57 am
Benefit of the Doubt
The boy’s blue eyes shone
Tried so hard to be good
Tall frame was troubled
So easily misunderstood
But something happened
A long time ago
That split his heart
And darkened his soul
He had to feel needed
Wanted and secure
To cover the emptiness
And risk of wanting more
He worked and toiled
To fill the vacuum inside
He crea...
Saturday 17th August 2013 8:05 am
Owl Ghost
Curtains drawn
One sunny morn
A white shadow
On patio door
Since that night
No cry heard
Death knoll subdued
Prey is disturbed
Prophecy or protection
Wisdom or inflection
Your powder down
I cannot clean
A haunting call through the valleys of resentment
Forgive – forgive - forgive
© Katypoetess 2013
Saturday 10th August 2013 8:25 am
Instar
Flatlined. Red admiral turned cabbage white.
Our bed, once pale open casket creaks a chrysalis,
a steadfast metamorphosis of our gothic love story.
Set apart by vengeful spouses, hindwings skinned.
Living in separate houses, just over ten miles apart.
Beyond the ending in damask suburban banality
the vampire’s parable of a lover’s return fleets transient
scorni...
Saturday 27th July 2013 11:23 am
Rebirth
I sweat, I shriek, I write
Worried faces can only wait
I tear, I bleed severely
begging for epidural of hate
I can’t get you out of me
But I must or I will die
My back arches upwards
My legs spread open wide
Final push, truth and lies collide
I exorcise what you decimate
Sodden, panting, I look down
to see what you did create
I g...
Saturday 13th July 2013 7:44 am
Love's Circumference
Dreaming
Waiting
Hesitating
Taking
Denying
Confessing
Taking
Hesitating
Waiting
...Saturday 6th July 2013 8:04 am
The Oak Tree III
Sanctuary turned cemetery
On late November afternoon
Your kindred spirit rises as I pace forwards
I giggle as you grumble
About mud on your boots
No tea to takeaway from the café today
I avert all others eyes
Was it through here,
Or a little further perhaps?
The birds scatter in welcome as I arrive
Without our blanket to break my fall
...
Saturday 18th May 2013 9:47 pm
Voices
He’s crazy
She’s crazy
It would never have worked
How could you?
He’s possessive
She’s obsessive
You would never have been happy
How could you?
Look how he treated you
Look how she behaved
You were never right for each other
How could you?
Tighter, tie me tighter and take me
you naughty girl, cum on me - now
...
Saturday 4th May 2013 8:27 am
The last night remembered and spent
Tugging the stockings out the drawer
Clasp up clips, leave suit on the floor
Zip up my boots, apply more mascara
Anticipate nervously the oncoming drama
Start the engine on cold autumn night
You wanted me there, and I cannot fight
Tired, unsure, aware of the time
Knowing your impatience, I blur the white line
Bright lights feed confidence, feeling unf...
Sunday 28th April 2013 10:33 am
Banished from Eden
The torch has turned, flame extinguished.
Roses and lilies, once love’s bouquet,
now wilted wreath. I wear the silver locket
tarnished to jet in anger. I rage, snip and shave
the hair you nestled in, that you forbade me to trim
Against all fashionable whim. I relish the pain
knowing fresh ink on skin will repel you.
Cuckolded by your wife, I curl c...
Sunday 21st April 2013 10:08 am
Nesting
Clearing drawers
On that side of the bed
And putting things back again
The bathroom isn’t done
Fuck.
The garage isn’t cleared
I hope his car fits in
Big lack of wardrobe space
Fuck.
He has got so many clothes
Where would they go?
It’s his wedding anniversary next month
So what kind of new madness is this?
Ho...
Sunday 24th March 2013 9:27 am
Equinox
“I love this bed” you sigh. Half clambering, half enticing.
Socks fly chaotically towards carefully folded suit trousers
on the stair banister outside our door. Seductively deluded
domestic comfort. We mock the coupling joggers sweating and panting.
Beating the towpath in desperate lust for a BMI of whatever. We know
a much better way to keep the pounds off by keeping poundi...
Sunday 10th March 2013 10:28 am
The Cottage II
Where are we now
Back to square one
Thrown to the beginning
Or have we moved on?
As the season changes
The cycle does reap
An autumnal harvest
That tastes just as sweet
There’s no place like home
Unearthed and unearthly
insecurity and fear still roam
Driven, dark and dirty
Trying to live the dream
Fucking, fighting and broken
...Sunday 3rd March 2013 8:20 am
A little bohemia in Warwick
“Remember these times.” Urging me earnestly
whilst you nuzzle my hair down there. I dizzy and delight
at your glasses still on. A wicked glint behind
magnified - tantalizes. I draw breathe, thighs tense.
I protest “No, no, you can’t do that it’s the wrong time of….”
You can. You will. You do. Body squirming, eyes wide,
I clutch the duvet, horrified. Yo...
Sunday 24th February 2013 10:27 am
The Oak Tree at Hatton Locks
Looking up while you were fucking me, I tried to grab a falling leaf.
But I missed; I couldn’t quite reach the wish that fluttered in the breeze.
Branches gather, cross and weave our worn anxious self-discoveries
swaying unable to still uncertainty. We circumscribe this Eden as reality.
When I promised forever did you feel time stop?
A treetop to trick and ...
Sunday 17th February 2013 8:04 am
Extra Hot, Extra Wet, Extra Shot
Early impatience to your inevitable lateness
Love's fresh aroma makes my heart beat
Awaiting half Irish steampunk entrance
Mixed black and bitter - dusted vanilla sweet
Crowd well scanned for anyone we know
Cappuccino obediently essenced to your liking
Before sitting with me in comfort, and on show
We box witty as hares – tease, half chastising
...
Sunday 10th February 2013 7:56 am
Anthony and Katypatra
I arrive. Quickly turning bedroom from Rome into Alexandria.
Skin up, pop a cork to dilute our blood with Bollinger.
Determined to mix up a confidence to conquer,
goddess summoning up a strip tease of your morality.
“The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool.”*
Coiling concubine - arabesque around your thighs to
nourish exo...
Sunday 3rd February 2013 8:24 am
Soho
For two days and two nights we architect a megalomania
in defiance. Disguised in stray abandon amongst oblivious streets.
Scavenging on Oxford Street you buy skinny black jeans and converse.
Just like mine. We shamelessly crawl sex shops for new toys
and sully Soho square’s benches with marijuana smoke.
You recite poetry loudly, off the cuff of your duffle coat,
none o...
Sunday 27th January 2013 8:17 am
Grief
She has no beauty in face or form
Weighting the lightest heart
She deafens our spirits with silence
Filling the emptiness when we’re apart
She breaks the distant grey waves
Swelling pregnant with our loss
She destroys well intended footsteps
Muddying our paths that cross
She banishes happiness out of sight
Turning the natural to feel so wrong
...
Sunday 20th January 2013 9:43 am
Should I tell her?
No regrets
I swear to you
not one.
Except
a question in a text
a reply that fired a gun
fate’s bullet aimed straight
shattered my heart
another’s life saved.
If I had said yes
instead of no
would I still be alone now -
who knows?
Martyrdom – with a reward to come?
Or stupidity – my life coming undone?
...
Sunday 13th January 2013 8:28 am
Gentleman Caller
Never expect but always must anticipate
Children now asleep, I am freshly bathed
His fantasy diverting to an eager soliloquy
Gentleman caller
raps my door delicately
Dutifully agitated into dazed acquiescence
He thrusts me forward, a quickening zealous
One hand over mouth, other girdles my belly
Gentleman caller
then politely assaults me
I turn on kettl...
Sunday 23rd December 2012 10:23 am
The Comfort of Strangers at Hatton Locks Car Park
Who is that man
always parked next to us
When we meet early evening
He sits in his seat
Pretending to read a newspaper
While we create mischief
In the back of your car
Who is that woman
Who works in the café
Always friendly and curious
She asked us once
“What we were doing here so late?”
How could we reply
Who are those...
Sunday 16th December 2012 10:56 am
Reflection
If only I could have a little madness
to release me from these stories.
Are you my sanity and my truth?
From a sin to a beginning
I continue devoted to endure
role of poetess and the whore
Could I, and did I
really write you into my life?
© Katy Hughes 2012
Saturday 8th December 2012 9:13 am
On a plane to Bahrain
A seat
Empty beside me
The distant glow
Of the fires below
Your spirit in the smoke
Does form
I nuzzle into
Your right shoulder
You hold my head
And kiss my cheek
“It will be alright.” you smile
Yet the tears still fall
I blink and look again
you are not there at all
© Katy Hughes 2012
...
Sunday 18th November 2012 9:34 am
Mobile
Hearts dangling on a mobile
two apart
two together
no control
swirling, swinging
they turn
this way
that way
clanking, rattling
strung together
ever tangled
never free
whichever way the wind blows
© Katy Hughes 2012
Sunday 11th November 2012 10:30 am
Hidden Agendas
My husband’s lover is jealous of me
My husband is jealous of you
I am jealous of your wife
And she doesn’t have a clue
Honesty has no part to play
In this age old fashioned game
All delightfully free in delusion
The blood still runs the same
Katypoetess 2013
Sunday 4th November 2012 10:29 am
Wedding Day
Stood alone
grounded by grey rock
papoosed tight in your arms
an altar before the Atlantic
commanding, tumulus ocean
serves as our priest
Two shells
brought from sandy shelter
where we consummated our love
gives us two rings to keep
fraught, fragile commitment
regardless of reality
You whisper
echoed by breaking wave
“Just you and me against the world...
Sunday 28th October 2012 9:35 am
The Cottage
Completely captive, liberated and free
Thick damp walls are constraining me
Shrouding, chilling my pale virgin skin
I kneel at the hearth’s grey altar within
black blood of ghosts run down set stone
Displaying anger against intrusion below
As one of them passes by from the past
“Do you like living with me?” you ask
Simple domesticity lies softly at hand
...
Sunday 21st October 2012 9:49 am
Crossing
Paralysed, struck flat on my back
Irish sea sprays up a malady
leaches through impervious skin
And drifts my reliant apathy
Slow boat rocks, judders beneath
Bearing to shadowed grey land
Clouds reach down tentatively
Brushing the back of my hand
Far away, two children mourn
Loss of a mother who slips
Away with waves to another love
Another time, where...
Sunday 14th October 2012 8:42 am
Reality Check
Amongst the crowd
She never noticed me
Not one glance
But she was all I could see
It seemed unreal
Not quite right
That she was there
She’s your wife
My dreams crushed
My heart torn
I slip away
Irrelevant and small
Amongst the crowd
She never noticed me
Not one glance
But she was all I could see
© Katypoetess 2012
Sunday 7th October 2012 9:42 am
Of Lilith and Anthony
Candle flame doth gently sway
Conjures the demon usually kept at bay
Lover’s felo de se shines bright as the moon
She knows the timing is far too soon
Shriek of hungry vixens surround
She runs to him on frozen ground
Barefoot beneath does not chill
the hunt to have the desired kill
He pulls heavy curtains tight
Blocks out the descending night
She claws ...
Sunday 30th September 2012 9:56 am
By the wayside
Late arrival into meeting room
You look for me amongst
faces you command, commandeer.
I lower my eyes to defend
against the bulleted frontline thoughts
daring an agenda of fantasy.
Sitting opposite; each others target.
Our kindred spirits embrace
only once throughout the hour.
Quick chatter accompanies slow exits;
You need “a word”, and blend me into
a corporate gr...
Sunday 23rd September 2012 9:38 am
Dichotomy
Keep each other captive
Set each other free
Give all there is to offer
Take all there is to see
Make each other happy
Bring each other pain
Give all that is crazy
Take all that is sane
Torture, tease
Starve, nourish
Resist, desire
Hurt, cherish
No time
Forever
© Katypoetess 2012
Sunday 16th September 2012 9:53 am
Conditioning
On the floor
Arms held tight
A dangerous edge
In your passionate eye
Are you beautiful?
Are you smart?
Are you sexy?
Are you mine?
My brow furrows
A hesitant smile
I’m uncomfortable
Say yes and comply
© Katypoetess 2012
Sunday 9th September 2012 8:04 am
Sea
The waves carry you and I to meet
each creeps a little closer to my feet
I retreat, stung by approaching tide
I turn my back and try to hide
Hopelessly pulled back, my mind
succumbs to salty kisses entwined
Turn again with depth and force
of emotion from tempestuous source
Thrown up, smashed and broken
an inevitable part of loves token
...
Sunday 2nd September 2012 8:01 am
Poem from Prague
Your text message:
Where are you when I need your love?
All you offer is the darkness of your rage
If loving me is such a difficult religion
Maybe my death will wipe the anger from the page
Bohemia is here, it’s where it started
And is coiled within these walls
I can hear the venom calling
And drips poison in me, then crawls
Wher...
Sunday 26th August 2012 9:22 am
Character
I’m a poet
a romantic
a fantasist
an illusionist
such will be my downfall
capture me
possess me
let me love you in reality
flatter my writer’s vanity
ink flows and unleashes
the very essence of you
you are every kind of hero
and villain to me
I could never dare
to analyse
I would never want
to write
the final chapter of you
© Katy Hughes 20...
Sunday 19th August 2012 12:38 pm
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