The Thinker’s Cure
When you’re eaten up with things to do
When elegant brilliance leaves
hungers unfilled
When your heart has a head cold
I want to be a naughty smile
Sneaking up on you
getting wedged between
contemplations of
immaculately empty dreams
and
risk-analysis of ascending trusts
making you
lose your lists
of logistical etceteras
get lost
in the sway of hips
beating like a rhythmic sea
against reality’s shores
Unraveling dark-knit ponderings
one lick at a time
erecting a problem-solution
to clear your head
in the sweep of saucy tide
swallowing sorrow
And then I want to be…
that last drop
trembling
on the corner
between
naughty and Your smile
~Nara Malone
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19 Comments
Jae Rose
Heart with a head cold..can relate..i love the almost subliminal imagery inserted (so to speak) throughout..good to see you back at Sunday Scribblings..
Björn
Oh this is really good…hot and cool… really worth reading..
Brian Miller
ha. hot. i def need that kind of distraction when the world is crashing in on me…the to do list…i came face to face with that stress last week…def coulda used that…smiles.
howanxious
Nice. I like it. Sensuous and very well-penned. 🙂
-HA
bwfiction
this was made more sensual by your avoiding the explicit and embracing the subtle —
nicely done
Dorianna
loved the teasing sensuality of this poem..the delicious invitation to awaken from the mundane..expertly done
Pat Hatt
The best way to be, screw all around you, just screw around lol
Colleen@Looseleafnotes
I'm thinking of Marvin Gaye's Sexual Healing here! Nice conjur.
Mary
I enjoyed this. I love the idea of becoming that naughty smile that disrupts the work that has to be done and brings pleasure in its place!! Cleverly contrived!
Timoteo
You used "lick," "erecting," "head," and "swallowing" all in the same stanza, and never became nearly as explicit as a Viagra commercial on prime-time network TV. That's craft!
Claudia
haha….oh not a bad way at all to defeat stress you know…swallowing sorrow…made me smile… it certainly gives some good relief..smiles
Gabriella
I enjoyed the tone of your poem! "making you lose your lists of logistical etceteras" – very clever and effective line!
ladynyo
Whoa! This is hot! LOL@ I love the words: heart with a head cold. LOL!
I am a belly dancer attempting flamenco. I find such music in these words, and that always attracts me to poetry.
Very nice.
Lady Nyo
vb holmes
Several unique phrases–particularly like the imagery of "dark-knit ponderings…."
joanna
Loved this– just delicious! lol I don't know if it's because I'm also a belly dancer, but I agree with Lady Nyo– the line "heart with a head cold" completely undid me. 😉
ayala
Nice 😉 hot, hot 😉
rumoursofrhyme
Clever writing, Nara – and who could resist an offer like that?
lori mcclure
Love the passion in your words. How fun to be someone's distraction, right? Or to have someone to do the distracting 🙂
Vanessa V Kilmer
Hot stuff!