My response to dVerse Poets Pub Tuesday Poetics: The Sound of Love. This evening Walt has challenged us to explore the SOUND of love.
You fold your arms around her
With a whisper of wings,
Your breath in her ear
Like sea in a shell, washing
A distant shore and yet so near.
Your heart gallops,
A startled stallion
Running for cover,
Unsure of your lover,
Holding her with bones that creak
Like sails on a galleon.
Clothes rustle
As your fingers brush her face
In your first embrace.
© Kim M. Russell, 2016
Gaston La Touche ~ The Embrace (The Lovers) 1893, found on Pinterest
writing in north norfolk 
That galloping stallion – incredible how you can hear your own heart beating so fiercely and unless close, not heard by anyone else.
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Sometimes it’s like it’s going to burst out of your chest and gallop away!
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Yes it is!
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Simply beautiful, Kim. Truly.
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Thanks, De. I tried to hear it from the point of view of a man. I hope I succeeded. But then, it could be a woman.
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SMiLes.. my FriEnd.. noW
i can’t say i’Ve heard mY hEArt
beat Now except for thaT first then
Love in an afternoon car embrace
and the SonG by Boston playiNg
‘Don’t look back’.. in ’78..
true i would
never be
quiet the
same again
aft that first
speciaL anD
intimate
embrace
as heARt of Love Race..:)
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I really like the excitement and sounds of the first embrace:
Your heart gallops,
A startled stallion
Well done Kim!
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Thank you, Grace!
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Beautifully haunting!! ❤️
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Heart racing….breathless …beautiful!
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Thank you!
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perfectly put!
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Thank you, Candy!
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That heartbeat.. yes i do remember that… i wonder if it only happens once in your life.
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I can’t answer that – it depends on the individual. 🙂
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lyrical, visual, ust lovely. 🙂
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Thank you!
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most welcome! 😀
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Du-dum, du-dum, du-dum~ oh, I can hear the heartbeat’s sound. 🙂
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😊
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“A distant shore and yet so near:” ..beautiful poem . I am hearing the fragility of love here.
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Thank you for reading, Kathy, and for your kind comments.
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Love so much about this, Kim. Most especially that startled stallion!!! 🙂
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Thank you, Lillian 😉
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Oh so lovely. 🙂
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Thank you, Imelda!
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Lovely. I really like the first lines: “You fold your arms around her/With a whisper of wings,/Your breath in her ear/Like sea in a shell, washing/A distant shore and yet so near.”
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Thanks for reading and commenting!
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Oh I do love this, the metaphor of sailing and “a whisper of wings”! Very well written and heart-warming, Kim!
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Thank you kindly!
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The picture matches the poem very well!
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As I have as well, you’ve envisioned the sounds of love to come in hushed whispers (whisper of wings). Whispers are sensuous and requires one to truly listen to another.
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marvellous and powerful metaphors – I can hear thundering hooves of the startled stallion – so evocative of heart beats beneath the rustle of embrace
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Thank you for reading and commenting, Laura.
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Beautiful! ❤
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Thank you, Josslyn.
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You’re welcome! ❤
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Very sensual.
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Thank you, Rosemary.
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It’s so interesting what you have written, please check this app out: it’s a sound meter and it’s pretty cool medidordesonido.wordpress.com/
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Thanks for reading. I will check out the app!
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