Imagine
sestina synthetica by the whimsical Wendi Adair, magical marika bianca, zupercalifragilisticexpialidocious Zev., twinkling Tamyka Bell, time-traveling TeriJo, kaleidoscopic Kunal Duggal, and sestina mazzter Michael Stalcup
Imagine ecstasy interminable
pure life, bare skin,
neither thorns nor teeth.
Minds mingle and verify
peace, pleasure, one shared soul,
earthly delights bloom.
Picture bodies in sinful bloom
unfolding in fire interminable,
passion spilling roughly from soul to soul.
Ravenous fingers grip thirsty skin,
eyes searching eyes to verify
a carnal need for flesh to meet teeth.
Open yourself, unbar those erring teeth
desperate to clutch a mirage of the bloom;
through third eye’s perception, verify
the imagined, the interminable
life’s bliss; a pang dissecting the skin
will tell you of the desolated soul.
Forget the former limits of this soul:
forget that you once bared your teeth
to tear tanned and sunburned skin
and nip at clipped wings. Let bloom
this once-barren womb with interminable
hope that love will return and verify.
Remember me, that I may verify
the colors of your soul
Remember light interminable
Let me bare my teeth
Show yourself in gilded light, fiery lust does bloom
Let me turn to see you there, I need to taste your skin
To remember her skin —
is to feel the fleeting of our last hug, is to verify
my heart will continue to bloom
even if our parallel souls
will never touch, is to show my teeth
and grin, for a love that is interminable.
Skin the fruit picked from the tree of life interminable
And take a bite to verify that death’s determined jaws lack teeth —
Its scythe an empty sheath — while love, in full bloom, fills your hungry soul.
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