Mimi - Mona Poetry: Who’s Reaching Back for Me?

©Who’s Reaching Back for Me?

Mimi Wolske

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Running insane in the pouring rain?

You’re a standup dame; please give us your name,

Then future this when the milk is gone—

Time’s not secure when overdrawn.

All hurts fade in the light of day,

But night pains thrive in your résumé.

I was the one lured; by Spring spurred

Into annihilating kisses from disencumbered

Itinerant male tenants,

By Summer seasoned into extravagance,

And by Autumn encouraged to winter in

A nobleman’s embrace, and then

Came the meaning of Winter’s meaningless

Misery to my mind’s hopeless mirthlessness:

I was being left behind the we,

Wondering who’s reaching back for me?

Let me be the one who remains mononymously

The only name you call —exclusively.

(painting: Auburn, 15x24 inches, Acrylic, Graphite, and Oil on Canvas by Michael Shapcott)

Mimi-Mona Poetry

© I Forget how to breathe, especially when

your tongue shoves love down my throat

I gag because I can only write L-O-V-E

across your heart with permanent marker

 

by Mimi Wolske

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© I Fell

hard

and I'm drowning —

just because

you fill a hole

with crap

doesn't mean

it wasn't there once

by Mimi Wolske

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© Not Enough

to know

I prefer Earl Grey

when picking

up the shattered,

splattered,

shredded mess

called my heart

from your first 

knowing stare

by Mimi Wolske

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POETRY - ROMANTIC: Red Lips and High Heels

©Red Lips and High Heels

Mimi Wolske, May 2014

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There she lies

wearing only lipstick

(red, red lipstick) to

color the wounds

you know she might inflict

and high heels that

emphasize her complex but

redoubtable moral stature

You know she could

outwit you with her

cunning and her control

She recognizes your

need for love—

and she withholds

You love her madly,

passionately,

with feverish intensity,

as a man can only love

a woman who responds

with a petrified smile to

your ever calm and

unchanging dominance

"Pajamas are for sissies,

Darling," she says, her

sultry voice enticing

like a spider drawing

you into her web

You go willingly

because you can't

help yourself

You adore her

You want her

She belongs to you

She is more than a

mere part of your pack

She is the alpha

female who plays

to your alpha male

From beginning to end

she is your erotic

fantasy, desire,

memory, your love

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