Joy Ride

Joy Ride

think how your body moved down the avenue of fourteen

hips swaying into tomorrow and the next day

 

 how you curl your tongue around the idea of chocolate

consumed by it even as your body consumes it

 

 how your eyes connect with other eyes,

locking you into that inevitable, unforgettable  dance

 

and feel how your body shudders and utters delight

when you share its secrets

 

 how Beethoven ravaged, savaged your heart

invading, vibrating a joyous ode across tiny ear drums

 

 how your skin felt like silk when you dove into the ocean,

 and the salt-flecked water blessed, caressed and ate you

 

 how your body worked to roll out another and another  body,

sweating and pushing,  pushing and sweating you bore them out

 

 then swooned at the scent of brand new-born pouring

 into every open door your body owns

 

 how you are stunned when you rise from a daydream

 and your eyes run across the sky, immense, intense with clouds

 

 how you glow when a little boy stops playing

to  touch your cheek lightly, politely planting a kiss 

 

 how a river of pleasure runs through your nose 

when a rose shrugs off its holy fragrance

 

and oh,

feel how your heart pumped as you jumped on your bike

willing your eight year old legs to ride forever

 

how you soared, when you stopped on the road to Yosemite, awed

and had to lie on the hood of the car to keep from falling into the stars

 

and how your heart sings in time with the birds

when spring arrives to banish, vanish winter

 

  your body convulses and  pulses with  laughter, 

 tears flowing, you fall down on the floor 

 

 when you think what an impossible joy-ride

it has given you

     ever since you climbed aboard

at your naked, gasping birth.

 

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©WabiSabi 2013

                                     

For d’Verse “Open Link Night’

For Poets United ‘Poetry Pantry’