Gideon’s Challenge

IMG_9516Intimacy

Eagerness reigns
as I feel the urge
to shed my skin
and bare my soul
to your touch
and the rough graze
of whiskers
against places
that go far deeper
than the flesh
as inhibitions
fall away
so that all that’s left
is eager hands
and the bite of need

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Gideon’s Challenge

IMG_9461Flower Shopping

Spring has sprung
and flowers kiss
the senses with
scents of damp earth
and vibrant color
and I am eager
ready
for the sweep of
sweet and wild
energies to flow
through the air
and kiss
petals and leaves
like raindrops do

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Gideon’s Challenge

IMG_8759The Little House

A home with a view
waterfront solitude
quiet and still
in a bright little house
we settle inside
and when we have
somewhere to go
we go for a ride
on feathered friends
that share our roof
and snuggle with us
as we wait for winter
to go poof

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Gideon’s Challenge

IMG_6120Intensity’s Focus

You invade
my senses
and fill me up
like popcorn
filling the bag
tucked within
the microwave
in the middle
of the night
until all that I feel
is you
and only you
and you
consume me
completely

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Gideon’s Challenge

IMG_9119Vintage Influences

History lives
in the sweetest
moments
and smallest things
lingering among
the new and shiny
trinkets
of today
and add flavor
to the new
in a way that only
the old
are able to do

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Gideon’s Challenge

IMG_8792aIndividuality

Bits and pieces
of nature’s detritus
sloughs off
to fall
to the forest floor
lingers and degrades
and as decay
sets in
individuality
is lost
as all melts back
into the soil
and becomes one
once more

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