#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 74

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 74

He fell in love with the smile in her eyes. Her plague mask hid her lips and made the anticipation of kissing them all the more tantalizing.

© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻

#kiss #microfiction #flashfiction #mask 
 

The Empath's Porous.

 The Empath's Porous.

An empath's lot is not a simple one.

Gathering others' feelings takes its toll.

Binding their wounds, my own become undone.

But this is my calling. I know my role.

I am the angel in shadows dark,

The familiar who carries their magic.

For the blown out candle I am the spark.

My story is triumphant, not tragic.

© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 73

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 73

Was it his lip that was trembling or mine?

© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻

'Effacing Reality'

Effacing Reality

I am a parody of me

I'm a minority of one

You cannot see that I am free

Despite the battles that you've won

This world of yours, I'm done with it

My sanity is not for sale

Why should I put up with your shit

Your arrogance beyond the pale

Me and mine will rescue our lives

We've figured out what we must do

Make a home where everyone thrives

We'll even save a place for you

© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻

 

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 72

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 72

His embrace was the last thing I expected even though many an evening star had heard me wishing for it. I froze and gasped though I did not stiffen. Just as he was about to pull back and apologize, I managed to melt and, clinging to him for the support he longed to give, I kissed him back.

© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻

#kiss #microfiction #flashfiction

Is there a balcony for me on your castle in the air?

Will you call out my name and implore me to let down my hair?

Will you climb the ivy to me or at least ascend the stair?

Or is it enough for you to know that I am waiting there?

© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻

#poetry #poem

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 71

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 71

I lifted my face and stood on my toes to kiss him. He was tall. His arms were strong, his hands huge, and I felt totally engulfed in his embrace...

...and I liked it.

© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻

#kiss #microfiction

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 70

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 70

He was drunk but she was kind.

What had possessed him? He had no head for wine.

She was such a little thing, so it couldn't have been easy, but she steered him to the bed and got him horizontal. She slipped off his boots and tucked the covers around his shoulders.

"Do I get a goodnight kiss?" He muttered. His last sensation before the darkness took him was of her warm lips on his forehead. "'s not quite what I had in mind...zzzzzzz..."

© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻

#kiss #microfiction 

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 69

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 69

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 🎃

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 68

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 68

'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
 

#vss365 #mine

The dark form disappeared into the gaping hole with a whoosh of clammy, fetid air dragging my grandad's corpse behind it.

"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

#vss365 #mine

The sound of her laughter tickled his ears. She was somewhere nearby...nearer than she'd ever been before.

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

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 67

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 67

A gap in the clouds

lets a last kiss of sunlight

through to say goodnight.

#haiku © Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻

#kiss #poem #poetry
 

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 66

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 66

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 

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 65

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 65

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 

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 64

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 64

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 

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 63

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 63

"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

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 62

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 62

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

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 61

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 61

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.

from Twitter #prompt #vss365 #power

There were two men at the table who laughed loudest at her jokes while they stared daggers at each other.

But she turned the power of her gaze on the one with shyly downcast eyes, preferring blushes to bluster.

from Twitter #prompt #vss365 #power

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 60

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 60

"Give us a kiss!"

"You're supposed to say 'Trick-or-Treat.'"

But she gave up the Hershey's anyway.

© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 59

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 59

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

micropoetry

He was a deer and her eyes were the headlights.

© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻

#micropoetry 

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 58

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 58

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

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 57

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 57

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

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 56

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 56

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

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 55

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 55

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

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 54

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 54

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 

Mahna Mahna!

Tell me you watched 'The Muppet Show' without saying you watched 'The Muppet Show.

#AtFirstKiss 💋Vol. 53

#AtFirstKiss 💋Vol. 53

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

'Rain' an ASMR Poem

'Rain'

tap tap

hum groan creak

sniff

scratch

crackle

hum

chuckle hum

shuffle patter

sigh

© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻

#ASMR #poetry #poem #rain
 

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 52

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 52

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

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 51

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 51

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 
 

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 50

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 50

As a child I thought

the sting of sparklers was what

kissing stars felt like.

© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻

#haiku #kiss #poem #poetry #HaikuForChildren

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 49

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 49

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

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 48

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 48

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

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 47

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 47

There was a kiss of

frost on the grass. I felt a

need for more cuddles.

© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻

#haiku #kiss #poem #poetry

Sunset

Sweet dreams, Sunbeams! 

Fais de beaux rêves, Rayons de Soleil!

🌞❤️🌻❤️😻😻😻❤️🐔🐔

#sunset

#AtFirsyKiss 💋 Vol. 46

#AtFirsyKiss 💋 Vol. 46

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 
 

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 45

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 45

I would be mute without love's kisses to wet my lips and lift my voice.

© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻

#kiss #micropoetry 

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 44

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 44

I want another first kiss.

#kiss 

I want more of you than is good for me.

I want more of you than is good for me.

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 43

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 43

My first glimpse of the

moon leaves me as breathless as

your kiss beneath it.

© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻

#haiku #kiss #moon #poem #poetry

The Monster Under The Bed

Good morning, Sunbeams!

Bonjour, Rayons de Soleil!

🌞❤️🌻❤️😻😻😻❤️🐔🐔

#cats

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 42

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 42

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 

Playing Possum-Dragon

You know that scene in 'The Hobbit' when Smaug just opens one eye...

🙀

#cats

No Chips 😿

"I see that you have chips.

I have no chips."

😿

#cats

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 41

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 41

But when there are no kisses, there is always poetry...

© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻

#kiss 

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 40

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 40

The sun still kisses

my hair the way you used to

with a light caress.

© Osquer Campbell 2018 🌞❤️🌻

#haiku #kiss #poem #poetry

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 39

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 39

Dandelion seeds

flutter in the rosemary

scented breeze, sun kissed.

© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻

#haiku #kiss #poetry #poem