Who am I not to say?: September 2022

Friday, September 30, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 39

Dandelion seeds

flutter in the rosemary

scented breeze, sun kissed.

#haiku #kiss #poetry #poem

Thursday, September 29, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 38

I remember the first time

I kissed you

when I poured out my passion

like wine on your lips

and my sighs

were the breath in your lungs.

I will never forget

waking from that dream

and wondering

if it will be like that

the first time you kiss me.

#kiss #poem

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 37

Sometimes you kiss a frog and find out he's a prince. Sometimes you kiss a prince and find out he's a frog. Rarely you kiss a prince and discover he's a prince through and through.

#kiss #frog

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 36

Last tigerlily

blooms, bravely waving goodbye

to Summer's warm kiss.

#haiku #kiss #poetry #flowers #poem #blackandwhitephotography

Monday, September 26, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 35

There are many kinds of kisses.

You may be kissed by fate,

perhaps by a faithless bullet

that had misspelled your name.

The one that just barely misses

offered by a shy date

can make your thoughts of love reset,

change the rules of the game.

#kiss #poetry #poem

from Twitter #prompt #vss365 #spell

"Won't you come up for a spell?"

"No thank you. The last one kinda backfired."

"Serves you right. I told you not to try and manifest an Edsel."

(from Twitter #prompt #vss365 #spell )

'Do You Follow?'

'Do You Follow?'

Do I have to spell it out for you

Can you not just hear it in my sighs

You think that because your facts are true

You have all that you need to be wise

But mere knowledge is not true wisdom

And power is not assigned at birth

And a castle is not a kingdom

It takes kindness to rule the Earth

(From Twitter #prompt #vss365 #spell )

Sunday, September 25, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 34

'Phantom Reverie'

I dreamt about dreaming that food no longer had flavor.

Return the favor and take from my mouth the shade of your kisses.

Leave me some memories my soul could possibly savor.

Don't smother my heart with ghost thoughts that hide what it truly misses.

#kiss #poem #poetry

"Count The Shadows"

Husband: doing DIY

🪚🪛

Me: finding spirits in the materials

🪵👻

#ghosts #Dryads #VashtaNerada #spirits

Saturday, September 24, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 33

'Exploring Fantasies'

I thought of you as I touched myself with your hands.

I dreamt of the day when we'll make love in far lands.

Replete with the sweet imaginings of your kiss,

Longing for the reality of coming bliss,

My body pliant, fluid as water with nerves,

Your flesh the river bed for my hollows and curves,

I would flow over you, surround you with my soul,

Take you in and feel your body making mine whole.

(for Mr. C)

#kiss #poem #poetry

Friday, September 23, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 32

My lips are parched - a

desert not from dryness but

a drought of kisses.

#kiss #haiku #poem #poetry #microfiction #flashfiction

Pumpkin Blossom Gold Star

Good morning, Sunbeams!

Bonjour, Rayons de Soleil!

🌞❤️🌻❤️😻😻😻❤️🐔🐔

Pumpkin Blossom Gold Star

Thursday, September 22, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 31

I kiss your temple as gently as I can, trying not to wake you. You mumble an inaudible endearment and hug me in your sleep.

(for Mr. C)

#kiss #TrueStory

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 30

The wind caresses my cheek

With the ghost of his kisses

The creaking tree branches speak

In the voice my heart misses

#kiss #poem #poetry #quatrain

Imagination

I am a figment of my own #imagination.

#sunset

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 29

You kiss me

standing in the doorway

and all of a sudden

I’m home.

#kiss #micropoetry #poem

Monday, September 19, 2022

He crossed the room in three long strides and hugged me longer than convention dictated. Emboldened or perhaps weakened beyond resistance, I tipped my face up and pressed my lips to his. Whether he'd planned it or not, he suddenly found himself kissing me back.

#kiss #microfiction

Sunday, September 18, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 27

His kiss when I came through the door was so roborant to my spirit that I would cling to him for several moments. I felt like a computer rebooting and had come to nickname this welcome home greeting as "hitting the reset button" at the end of my day. I almost felt like a new woman.

#kiss

Little Piggy

I finished my first piggy and boy was that pattern a pain! The designer's first language apparently wasn't English. When a crochet pattern says "knit 9 double stitches" you know something's screwy. At least the pattern was free.

🙄🐷😂

#crochet #pig #pattern #amigurumi

Saturday, September 17, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 26

He turned to me, kissed me,

and murmured those three little

words...

"Cup of tea?"

#kiss #TrueStory

Friday, September 16, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 25

He crooked a finger at me, eying me coyly, trying to be cute. It worked.

Even though I couldn't wipe the smile off my face to pucker, I laid my hand against his chest, leaned forward, and pressed my laughter trembling lips to his.

Artwork: "The Kiss" Gustav Klimt

#kiss #microfiction

Thursday, September 15, 2022

Moriarty Noir

Sweet dreams, Sunbeams!

Fais de beaux rêves, Rayons de Soleil!

🌞❤️🌻❤️😻😻😻❤️🐔🐔

#AtFirstKiss 💋Vol. 24

It was only a hockey game. I was going to behave myself. I was going to remain firmly in the friend zone where I'd been put. Really I was.

I hadn't reckoned on The Kiss Cam.

#kiss #microfiction #hockey

From the Twitter #prompt #vss365 #dark

These thoughts are lonely, dark and deep

And miles below where I can't sleep

From the Twitter #prompt
#vss365 #dark

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 23

He took my gloved hand in his and pressed his lips to it. The gesture was completely appropriate. The expression in his eyes was not.

(In fond memory of the late Anthony Valentine as 'Raffles')

#kiss #microfiction

Microfiction

"Alright," I relented, "The mouse can stay, but I don't want to see it or hear it. I don't want to find any evidence of its existence. It is to become The Phantom of the Pantry."

🪤🐀

#microfiction

Inflation

It's all over the news about the shocking inflation numbers. You know who's not shocked? High prices are not news to poor people.

#inflation

Watson needs her beauty sleep.

Mom, I know I'm cute, but it's four in the morning!

🙀

#cats #CatsOfTwitter

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 22

Somehow, he'd get her

alone for a moment . . . a

moment to kiss her.

#kiss #haiku #poetry

haiku

#haiku

windows open, eyes shut, nap

interrupted...the lure of

wild gardenia

#poetry #nature

Monday, September 12, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 21

I said, "Kiss me."

That wicked, quirky, little smile immediately shaped her lips: that sure signal that she was up to something.

Raising an eyebrow, she leaned forward and, bypassing my mouth, began slowly, sensually, stroking my nose with her own.

I didn't know that Eskimo kisses could be so sexy.

#kiss #microfiction

Sunday, September 11, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 20

I ran to the door to wrap my arms around my love and press my lips to his. I held my eyes closed for a long moment, hitting my mental reset button as I always did when my world became complete again, in his arms.

#kiss

Saturday, September 10, 2022

AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 19

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 19

I curled my tongue around the decadent dark chocolate and let it slowly melt. Then I sank my teeth into a rich, creamy bite of baked brie. I cleared my palate with a nibble of bread and then swirled deep red wine into my mouth. Completing the perfection by resting my head against his shoulder, I smiled up at him. He bent his head, and I closed my eyes as he kissed my wine stained lips.

#kiss #microfiction

Who wore it better?

Who wore it better? 🤔

Happy #Caturday from Moriarty and Watson!

😻😻

#cats

Friday, September 09, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 18

Any part of you

touching any part of me...

is always a kiss.

9 September 2022 🌞❤️🌻

(for Mr. C)

#haiku #kiss #poetry #poem

#vss365 #north

A herd of
cumulonimble
pachyderms
wafted by
on their way north,
leaving rainbows
trampled
into puddles
like so many
oil spills
in their wake.

from the Twitter prompt #vss365 #north

Thursday, September 08, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 17

She couldn't quite feel his lips against hers. The powder got in the way, but they did taste sweet. She decided to serve Tarte Tropézienne for breakfast more often.

#kiss #microfiction #breakfast

#vss365 #kiss

#microfiction using the hashtags #vss365 #kiss from #twitter

Wednesday, September 07, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 16

She folded me into her arms, resting her head against mine, kissing my hair.

She sighed, "Did you feel that?"

"You mean that little pop inside my chest. That sensation like when two soap bubbles meet and the barrier between them vanishes and they become one?"

"Yes."

#kiss #microfiction

The statue pictured is one of 12 in local villages by Lise Tatin.

Name of the statue: Giboulées (Showers)

Month represented: April

Location: Saint Poix

Effervescences of nature, love is at the rendezvous and youth is full of hope.

Moriarty

Tuesday, September 06, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 15

'Just A Taste'

Both with lips still greasy from pizza and with garlic scented breath we shared our first kiss.

#kiss #microfiction #pizza

Monday, September 05, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 14

Watching your face come

back into focus as you

sit back from a kiss...

(for my late husband Jay)

#haiku #kiss #poetry

haiku

#haiku

The end of the storm

comes, revealing stark softness,

a sky once more blue.

#poetry #storm #weather

Now That's What I Call Service

Me: Can we get some water over here, please?

Nature: Sure. You want ice with that?

#nature #thunderstorms #rain #hail

haiku

#haiku

blue skies and sunshine

thundering rain but the wrong

angle for rainbows

#poetry #thunderstorms #rain

'The Lure'

Everyone wondered why the cat always chose that particular landing to sleep on in the sun. It was because that was the landing where all the good smells gathered. That old soul with the bent tail that no one ever gave any attention to, no one except me the night I made fish chowder and it chose my windowsill instead.

#microfiction #cats #flashfiction

haiku

#haiku

When the sun comes out

from behind the clouds, it melts

the chill from my soul.

4 November 2021 🌞❤️🌻

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 13

I grabbed the tail of his jacket and pulled him into the cloakroom with a giggle. He laughed back at me and then buried his hands in my hair and pressed his mouth to mine. I surrendered completely to his kiss and sighed in his arms until someone showed up looking for their coat...

#kiss #microfiction

Saturday, September 03, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 12

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 12

I felt his hand on

my back. His mouth parted my

lips, and before I

knew where I was, I was lost

in tanka length fantasy.

#kiss #tanka #poetry #poem

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 11

His gruff manners were somewhat odious to her ethereal nature. While he liked to shout, she preferred to whisper. He stomped; she tiptoed. He pounded; she tapped. He devoured; she tasted. But when he took her in his arms and pressed his lips to hers, all thoughts of a more delicate love disappeared and she knew the meaning of animal hunger.

#kiss #microfiction

Friday, September 02, 2022

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Bonus Edition

'Colpo di Fulmine'

It was a dark and
stormy night...weather almost
as wild as your kiss.

🔊 Sound on. 🔊

#haiku #ColpoDiFulmine #kiss #thunderstorm #rain #weather #lightning

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 10

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 10

"Come closer."

"I'm afraid

to sit beside you

because

if I sit beside you

I'm going to want

to hold your hand

and

if I hold your hand

I'm going to want

to put my arm around you

and

if I put my arm around you

I'm going to want

to put the other one around you

and

if I put the other one around you

I'm going to want

to pull you close

and cradle your head

against my shoulder

and kiss your hair..."

"That sounds lovely..."

#kiss #microfiction #flashfiction

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