Passionflower - NaPoWriMo Day #17

Passionflower

Passionflower,
I love your bloom.
My eyes rivet,
every spring,
on your blazing
purple shock of life,
and on the youth
you bring.

Like a honey kiss
or the quickest lick
off a twist of lime.
So sweet and sharp,
so juicy and thick.
You are bracing bliss.

My soul rises from sleep
and darts like lightning to you,
my sugared slice of paradise.
Igniting me, you reveal your theme.
Erotic and tropical, you want me to be.
I tremble, afraid, but you're so alive
that pieces of me long dead revive.

The scent of a laguna breeze
is blown through ocean curls.
I breathe, renewed,
so filled by you,
so open, so unblue.

I taste your spirit
on islands you've been,
and wait for you
to bloom again.

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