Spilt Silk

Silk spills from her suitcase
and love is a careless thrown scarf
around long elegant necks.
She watches through the scented night
of unfamiliar décor,
as packet teas and coffees
lie like soldiers on a tray.
She idly wonders if he likes his coffee black,
or perhaps they will dispense altogether
and lie like lovers beneath
crisp white sheets
sharing bubbles of surprise
from cheap hotel glasses.
This is not the midnight raids
Of laughing childhood,
eating stolen food beneath a
canopy and jumble of bedclothes
cross legged with nightdresses
bunched around their knees.
Crumbs are no longer fun
and fizzy drinks are bought
in bottles proudly bearing labels
of an indifferent champagne.
If she opens the drapes
just a shade
will she watch that long lost innocence
cavorting down unfamiliar streets?
Nowadays she likes to lie
with one leg possessively stretched
and the lines and sinews of their bodies
elongated and filled with
Sated sighs.




Poetry by Elle The PoetBay support member heart!
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Written on 2014-02-16 at 17:52

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Lawrence Beck The PoetBay support member heart!
This is amusing. What unexpected memories pop up at odd times.
2014-02-18


F.i.in.e Moods The PoetBay support member heart!
Wow, Elle. So much texture and elegance in the way you set the scenes in your poetry. I don't know what else to say than to repeat myself again - you write so beautifully, this draws me in completely. Such a pleasure to read you :)
2014-02-17


Chaucer Whethers The PoetBay support member heart!
Mais Oui..written like the true
French libertine of that eternally
awake city of sense and sensuality.
Excellence is express in your poem.
2014-02-16



Spilling like silk down the page, wwo worlds, both dreamy—that of youth and what comes after.

Your images are ethereal, but they create a vivid picture nonetheless. The glimpse of childhood is particularly sharp.

I much enjoyed this.
2014-02-16