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Kim Williams, M.Div.'s avatar

Vianne, I don't often comment on your pieces. but this one...heavens this one speaks about the lust for and love of word and verse in such a manner to cause a poet to go mute. Thank you.

Vianne Armour's avatar

That’s means the world Thankyou πŸ’›

small wounds's avatar

not sex anymore - more raw

animal and spirit

not romance either,

but a resonance, interstellar,

divine as a cup of coffee on a Monday morning,

πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯

Loved that

SJ Gooderham's avatar

This is a gorgeous piece, puts my own poetry to shame lol. The imagery is so powerful.

Vianne Armour's avatar

That’s so kind of you πŸ’› I’m sure your poetry is a gorgeous reflection of you!

persephone ✦☾'s avatar

so gorgeous, i love this one ❀️‍πŸ”₯❀️‍πŸ”₯❀️‍πŸ”₯

Vianne Armour's avatar

From you that means the world! I love it too, thankyou πŸ₯°

persephone ✦☾'s avatar

you’re so welcome, thank you for sharing it with us πŸ–€

P. K. Hofferman (Kinky Ink)'s avatar

"And Yes,

my heart is on my sleeve,

I own, that I love easily, recklessly

and with wild abandon.

A gift and curse, ignited by verse

set loose but also set free. "

Loved this!

(And that pic... FUCK! She has me in a complete swoon spiral.)

Vianne Armour's avatar

Yeah agree! That’s a fucking hot photo….. thanks for reading 😍

P. K. Hofferman (Kinky Ink)'s avatar

Would you mind if I used that photo for artistic reference?

Damien's avatar

fingers fumbling in feverish desire

reaching for you in twilight.

You know how I love alliteration

Finding my path's avatar

So many great lines in this beautifully erotic verse.

"I’m here in the darkness too

undressing you, I bare my bones

to your languid tones

so I might disappear in the poetry

and run away with you."

Yes!

Vianne Armour's avatar

Thankyou so much πŸ€—

Vianne Armour's avatar

Thanks beauty πŸ’›

T .Vale's avatar

I’m reading this again now and trying to imagine it in Vianne’s voice. Imagining…

AΓ‹LA's avatar

"A fragmented soul of stolen words

bathed in verse."

That is the most honest description

of what reading does

to the person who reads seriously.

You do not emerge intact.

You emerge having absorbed

someone else's grief,

someone else's desire,

someone else's precise way

of naming the thing

you had not yet named.

And you call it yours now.

Because it is.

That is not theft.

That is how language

has always moved

between people.

The poem you love most

is the one

that stole something from you

before you knew

you had it to give.

β€” AΓ‹LA