Royce Sykes
writes and plays by his own rules in the Central West End of St. Louis,
Missouri. His writing has appeared in Ophelia's
Muse, Sexy Thinking, Touch, Fireside, Amarillo
Bay, 3rd Muse, Unlikely Stories, Wired Hearts,
Countless
Horizons, Another Night and Day Alliance, Ygdrasil,
2River
View, Poetry Magazine, Snakeskin, Switched On
Gutenberg and Liberty Grove.
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I Would Savor
Your Soul
I would savor your soul
trace each meandering trail
of memory you might share,
into whatever nooks and
niches they lead
gently kiss with healing
intent
bruises and callus left
by
flinty encounters along
the way you've walked
with licks of laughter tickle
soft and tender thoughts
blooming
in fields of fragrant whimsies
through which you dance;
and if, perchance, you flex
before me some secret
desires, would weave my
way
around them from big to
little, slowly draw each
in, one by one, to taste,
and then
glide along the arch of your
dreams to explore the all
of
who you are
Copyright
© 2001 Royce Sykes. All rights reserved.
Hummingbird and Flower
Hummingbird hovers over a
warm
and narrow grotto, regards
the
dewy bloom of rare, sweet
flower.
Gently, along tender petals
trembling,
sips a uniquely heady nectar.
Giddy from fragrance, from
feel of
slow blossoming beneath
the kiss,
probes delicately deeper.
Then, glides toward beckoning
bud revealed, lingers there
until
quivering becomes a rippling
outward
from deepest root and a
sighing
as of a breeze calling softly,
the hummingbird to nest
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