The kiss of a whisker makes me shiver
Spirits entice but rarely deliver
The wind rattles leaves and rattles my bones
Whirls all in a dance to the tune it moans
The moon peek-a-boos with clouds for a screen
Lighting the shadow shades of Halloween
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🎃
'Souffle Undone'
She started to wipe the tears from her cheeks.
"Wait," he begged. He snapped a picture and showed it to her.
When she saw the pink tear tracks through the soot on her face she couldn't help but laugh.
"That's better," he said, wiping her lips clean with his handkerchief so he could kiss them, "I don't like to see you cry, but if you do cry I want to be there to see it."
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
#kiss #microfiction
"What do we do now?" I asked.
"What do you mean we?" My grandad's ghost shrugged, "Your mine now."
from Twitter #prompt #vss365 #mine
He ascended a flight of stairs. Suddenly his vision was blocked by a pair of small, cold hands.
Again the laughter, "You're mine now."
from Twitter #prompt #vss365 #mine
A gap in the clouds
lets a last kiss of sunlight
through to say goodnight.
#haiku © Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
#kiss #poem #poetry
There was a taste
of Autumn about her kiss.
He wondered for a moment
if their romance was fading.
Then he realized it was just
the pumpkin spice on her lips.
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
#kiss #micropoetry #poetry #poem
Shadows kiss the corners of the room with caresses that tremble in the candlelight. The evening holds it's breath in anticipation of moonlight romance.
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
#kiss #micropoetry
Ask her to dance? Yes. He could do that.
Smile and laugh and pretend it was all in fun? Yes. He could do that.
Pretend he didn't notice when she glanced at his lips and blushed? No. That he couldn't do.
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
#kiss #flashfiction
"I know it's a cliche, but..." He extended a bouquet of red rosebuds.
"Nothing wrong with a good cliche," she replied, bending her head to take in their scent.
"You're right," he murmured as he drew her to him."I wonder how many cliches we can come up with between us."
Her lips were softer than the rose petals but not as soft as her sighs.
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
#kiss #microfiction
When a woman
has drunk from the
Fountain of Youth,
can one grow younger
just by kissing her lips?
#kiss #question
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
Photo: Phipps Conservatory - September 3, 2006 - Water Lily
ESCAPISM
I lie beside you listening to the rain and your breath
trying not to dwell in contemplation of loss and death.
Surrounded by all of the gifts that you have given me,
I know it's only my mind that keeps me from being free.
Though the shackles of my past should be more easily shed,
I doubt if even Houdini could escape from my head.
So, now I must realize that my saving grace is this:
my heart has faith that you will pass me the key with a kiss.
© Osquer Campbell 27 February 2020 🌞❤️🌻
(for Mr. C from his Fair Damsel)
Written exactly 1 year before our wedding.
But she turned the power of her gaze on the one with shyly downcast eyes, preferring blushes to bluster.
from Twitter #prompt #vss365 #power
"Give us a kiss!"
"You're supposed to say 'Trick-or-Treat.'"
But she gave up the Hershey's anyway.
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
I open the envelope and kisses flutter out, couched in the language of your letter, the phrases of affection and promise of your return.
And so I wait...
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
#kiss #flashfiction #microfiction
Her kiss, as soft as a petal, was enough to snap his heart,
the innocence of her love more seductive than any art.
The touch of her hands, cold and trembling, could set his soul on fire.
Her guileless eyes were the perfect trap to capture his desire.
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
#kiss #poem #poetry
She kissed the tears from his cheeks and then licked her lips.
"Did you just swallow my tears?"
"Of course. Tears are not to be wasted. They are precious and none moreso than yours."
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
#kiss #microfiction #flashfiction
I kissed his neck
the scent of his skin
awakening my desire
he hummed
with pleasure
but didn't realize
that my attentions
had intentions
and so
while he continued
with his book
I made the tea
at least I could
bring the kettle
to the boil
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
#kiss #microfiction #flashfiction
We were so young.
Spandau Ballet played
and our bodies swayed.
His kiss was clumsy
but not unwelcome.
I didn't know
until later
that it was his first.
I wish I had.
Instead of just
kissing him back,
I'd have knocked
his socks off.
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
#kiss #TrueStory
Some kisses give and some kisses take.
Some are for real and some truly fake.
Some kisses heal and some kisses burn.
Some are lessons we never will learn.
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
#kiss #quatraine #poem #poetry #sunset
What he'd dreamt was her kiss on his forehead
Was a memory long since sinned
What he'd imagined her suffering sigh
Was merely the breath of the wind
For he had left her like the dark at dawn
Though he'd been her star for a night
He turned and breaking out of her orbit
He ever regretted his flight
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
#kiss #poem #poetry
tap tap
hum groan creak
sniff
scratch
crackle
hum
chuckle hum
shuffle patter
sigh
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
#ASMR #poetry #poem #rain
Rain kissed roses blush
like my cheeks with memory
of your proposal.
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
(for Mr. C on the 4 year anniversary of our engagement)
#haiku #kiss #poem #poetry #anniversary #flowers
There was a kiss of laughter in his voice
Though his eyes were quite as grave as his will.
The clumsy innocence, his mask of choice,
Was really an exquisitely displayed skill.
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
#kiss #quatraine #poem #poetry
As a child I thought
the sting of sparklers was what
kissing stars felt like.
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
#haiku #kiss #poem #poetry #HaikuForChildren
kitchen air clove kissed
and cinnamon enfolded
a harvest of love
haiku for Nathalie
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
Pie & Pic © Nathalie Portelance
#kiss #poem #poetry #harvest #love #baking
I can only press my lips to the glass
The mark of my breath fading as you turn
But the effect of your touch will not pass
Your brand on my heart a renewing burn
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
#kiss #poem #poetry
There was a kiss of
frost on the grass. I felt a
need for more cuddles.
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
#haiku #kiss #poem #poetry
The kiss of your voice caresses me with chords
that hint of harmony, whispering my name.
We have no need for the convention of words.
You play me like an instrument, not a game.
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
#kiss #poetry #poem #micropoetry
I would be mute without love's kisses to wet my lips and lift my voice.
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
#kiss #micropoetry
My first glimpse of the
moon leaves me as breathless as
your kiss beneath it.
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
#haiku #kiss #moon #poem #poetry
I found someone who can hold my hand across 3,767 miles and kiss me with an entire ocean in the way.
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
(for Mr. C)
#kiss #TrueStory
But when there are no kisses, there is always poetry...
© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻
#kiss
The sun still kisses
my hair the way you used to
with a light caress.
© Osquer Campbell 2018 🌞❤️🌻
#haiku #kiss #poem #poetry
