Relationship – Page 2 – Deuxiemepeau Poetry by Damien B. Donnelly

SOMETHING MORE

If I asked you would you sever the skin from your body layer by layer and blanket me in your living flesh? Maybe the nights would feel warmer. If I asked you would you bleed the blood from your body value from veins […]

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THE SPIDER AND THE FLY

Remember when we spun promises on golden threads, as if they were webs, as if they could catch us falling, as if we ourselves were promises spinning, forms of filigree laying silken lines on subtle skins like veins entwined; limbs on lust and fingers on flesh to feverishly fondle. Remember when your breath was […]

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CRASH

Did you wipe your feet upon my head before you walked over me? Allow me to bend first, at least. Was I so accustomed to your disregard that I could not feel you tearing through me, leaning on me, raiding me, raping me? Did you wipe your sweat across my brow to save yourself […]

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TIME TEMPERED

Retrograde ripples swim me back to days when a certain light could cut the shadows in a single movement, when your touch was like cool water poured over feverish flesh below orange walls that watched us sinking onto a single soul. Terracotta tempered with summer shadows as streets twist and turn, as I twist and […]

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CAUGHT IN THE CONSCIOUSNESS

Curious are the occasions you come into consciousness, like colours caught out of season, without a reason you slip in between the solace to accentuate the silence, the stillness and the distance. Curious are the occasions you come into consciousness, like lyrics lost to their line, without reason or rhyme, you are mine […]

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LOST IN THE WATER

There is a part of me still there with you below the bridge by the river smiling as the water rushed past us and time flowed through us. There is a part of me there still in you below the water by the bridge drowning as time washed over us and the river trickled […]

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HEARTSTRINGS

When I am broken I hear the strings of my heart and its music moves me. When I am mended I forget the sounds that once resounded […]

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THE THINGS THAT LEAVE US COLD, PART 4

If you missed Part 1/2/3, please click on the links below: https://deuxiemepeaupoetry.com/2016/02/08/the-things-that-leave-us-cold-part-1/ https://deuxiemepeaupoetry.com/2016/02/09/the-things-that-leave-us-cold-part-2/ https://deuxiemepeaupoetry.com/2016/02/10/the-things-that-leave-us-cold-part-3/ The Things That Leave Us Cold Part 4 of 4(Audio version available to listen to; link at the end of page) We’d been living together, the monsieur and the boy, for almost 3 months in our […]

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THE THINGS THAT LEAVE US COLD, PART 3

If you missed Part 1 or Part 2 you can click on the links here: https://deuxiemepeaupoetry.com/2016/02/08/the-things-that-leave-us-cold-part-1/ https://deuxiemepeaupoetry.com/2016/02/09/the-things-that-leave-us-cold-part-2/ The Things That Leave Us Cold Part 3 of 4 (Audio version available to listen to; link at the end of page) It rained the first night I walked back to our apartment with […]

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THE THINGS THAT LEAVE US COLD, PART 2

If you missed Part 1 you can link on the link here: https://deuxiemepeaupoetry.com/2016/02/08/the-things-that-leave-us-cold-part-1/ The Things That Leave Us Cold Part 2 of 4 (Audio version available to listen to; link at the end of page) I didn’t go looking for him, if that’s what you’re thinking. It wasn’t like that, well, […]