Fleeting
In bed
their tattoos met
and bled.
Ink-kissed
lovers, knowing
this tryst –
night-born,
would live; would die
with dawn.
– Ryan Stone
With thanks to FT Ledrew for introducing me to the Musette form.
Fleeting
In bed
their tattoos met
and bled.
Ink-kissed
lovers, knowing
this tryst –
night-born,
would live; would die
with dawn.
– Ryan Stone
With thanks to FT Ledrew for introducing me to the Musette form.
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loved the imagery!
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Loved the feedback! 😉
haha, thank you!
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you are welcome dear Poet!
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Ryan, this is one of my favorites! Awesome<3
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It’s a lovely form, isn’t it? Thank you for being so kind, Carisa 🙂
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It’s beyond lovely 🙂
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Beautiful poem! Love the line about ink bleeding.
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Thanks so much, Melinda 🙂
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You’re welcome 🙂
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Great use of figurative language in this piece, Ryan and a fantastic example of a Musette…so glad you took time to write one 🙂
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I’m stoked you introduced me to them-love the form! Thank you for the feedback, I’ll keep practicing.
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I am happy you enjoy it and I await more of your ‘practice’ pieces 🙂
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Super sexy and hot. Nicely done. And thanks for rekindling my deep desire to ink myself, well not myself, to get inked. I love water colour tats but my Mexican says he’ll divorce me, lol. He’s a bit conservative when it comes to tats. I want the South African saying for empathy “Strongs” inked somewhere, likely on my wrist. I was also thinking of an anchor. Are you inked vecino?
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Covered in them. This poem is a little biographical. Thanks for taking the time to leave feedback. As for tattoos – personally I love them but not at the risk of a happy marriage 😉
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Good point. Makes sense 😉 and you’re most welcome.
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Somehow I stumbled back here.. Fleeting – is really a word I have used a lot and this poem resonates with this feeling.
Personification is superb and the expected melancholia congeals my veins… sigh..
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Haha, thank you 🙂
I saw the musette form on Thomas’s site and loved it right away.
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It suits you well! More in the shelf perhaps? 😉
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I’m just about to sit down with a coffee and try another one actually. Do you have a topic suggestion for me?
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YES!!!
Dusk 😀
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Excellent! It’s a deal 🙂
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yay! (squealing happily)
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Brilliant!!!
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Thank you 🙂
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🙏 cheers Ryan 🍷
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