The World, For Your Kiss

I would be in your mouth
for hours,
days, months, years!
For as long as there is breath
within my lungs,
to make it so…

If I could
become
a lost traveler
between the meeting of worlds
and the recognition of
The Only One –
I would do so;

soft,
and the petals dance
their wicked,
sublime dance.

Wet,
as the oceans sing
the song
of every lover,
lost or found,
upon the rocks for another’s
beating
heart.

And if lost is where these lips –
take me,
then lost to the world is where
I would only
ever wish
Be.

The tongue –
(my tongue and yours)
the servants of breath;
the meaning behind
the words;
the sentries at the gate
of granting
or
denying
the heart’s
safe
entry.

I am not afraid.

I already know
the way
your scales
fall.

I would no sooner give up speaking
from the base of my heart
in my glass-bottom throat:
I Love You,
then I would relinquish you
to the black hounds of hell
and the barren,
undefined pitch of madness:

my hand is yours,
my life your own -
take me where you live,
and I will kiss you, home.

So
let’s
Just

Stay.

Taste.

Be

in this space
of no memory;

skin
before equal
skin, in a mist
of blended scents;
two bodies sharing
the only moment:

time stolen from itself.

And
as the rest of the world sleeps
within the blinding hum
of indentured
silence,
let us dance
within the only sound –

our mingling breath and our slow,
deliberate
being.

Where the only words need spoken,
come as voiced breath,
from divinity’s throat
wrapped up
in:

Kiss.

© Kristin Reynolds 9 19 09

  • Alain Safa

    Alain Safa

    May I dance with you? and breath that one?

  • Kristin Reynolds replied

    ha! lol I’m glad you liked it; kissing and being lost between breaths is truly magical. :)

  • ArcadiaTempest

    ArcadiaTempest

    stunning Kristin….I have never read of a kiss as this before…..you have made a challenge for lovers all over the world me thinks…XXX

  • Kristin Reynolds replied

    wow, that is quite a compliment, miss K. I hope you will take up this challenge, and enjoy every moment to the fullest. :) thanks, lady. xo

  • Mudsoldat

    Mudsoldat

    wow K this is hot!!!! and breath taking…i love it Dudette! mmmmm this is delicious. :))) MS or do i just have a naughty way of reading???

  • Kristin Reynolds replied

    Well thank you, dudedude! I’m so glad you enjoyed. you may take it any way you wish it taken. that is the beauty of poetry. :) xo

  • trwoody

    trwoody

    Time stands still between the lips that share the breath of future…lovely and loving

  • Kristin Reynolds replied

    indeed. thanks, TR. :)

  • Cassidy JK (Ra Or Emraeh)

    Cassidy JK (Ra...

    I think my screen just ignighted from the heat of this! Gorgeous.

  • Kristin Reynolds replied

    oh no! I hope that by now you have found yourself another screen, goodness knows I would not want to lose you, daaaaling! lol thanks, Cass. xo

  • Trenchtownrock

    Trenchtownrock

    I am ready for a kiss..damn..that is a spiritual experience..what a journey….

  • Kristin Reynolds replied

    what an awesome comment; that’s what I wanted the reader to come away with. :) thanks, hun, love, K xo

  • raymondoantonio

    raymondoantonio

    YOUR CREATIVITY IS A WONDERFULLY BOTTOMLESS WELL!!! XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

  • Kristin Reynolds replied

    and your spirit a powerhouse of SOOOUL, brother! thank you always!!! xox

  • Gregory John O'Flaherty

    Gregory John O...

    That jsut made me feel so alone …....... I need a kiss…...... Brilliant !!!

  • Kristin Reynolds replied

    damn. that makes my heart sink, and feel…well…sad. :) here ya go, my friend XXXXXXX

    :) thanks G-man. :)

  • Christie  Moses

    Christie Moses

    Oh K this is beautiful!!!!!!! :) There is nothing more wonderful than a kiss except sharing a kiss with someone who really truly gets you and deserves and loves you like they should. I am smiling because the love in this shines so bright. Love you to the stars and back xoxoxo

  • Kristin Reynolds replied

    Thanks, Storm! :) nope, you’r right…nothing at all like it. :) thanks girl, I’m on the star next to the other star…I’m waving, can you see me? I’m the one in the tall black boots. lol

  • autumnwind

    autumnwind

    Only you could write kiss such as this. Breathtaking, divine beauty. xoxoxo

  • Kristin Reynolds replied

    oh, I doubt that, shar, I am certain you could as well. :) you always make me feel so warm and fuzzy inside, thank you for that…you hold a very special place in my heart, you know. hope all is well. :) love, me xoxox

  • RosaCobos

    RosaCobos

    I remember…
    (find myself old enough to saying this so…)
    I remember the first kisses….
    Were the times…when the mouths spoke the language of hands…
    and time passed and lips became sored and fluids formed part of a silent conversation..
    and that was the moment of feeling the rest of the body in ardent crying….
    in prespiration tuned…
    in desires smiling behind the back…
    of our twisted trunk….
    our twisted necks…
    all was twisted…
    and specially… our tongues.
    Rosa (loved that tongues servant of breaths..yes…breathing though was a wind inside, free and untold…sometimes … the words are a ballast…. nothing else.)

  • Kristin Reynolds replied

    ahhhhhh, I remember those as well. actually, I have a poem about my first kiss…perhaps I’ll post it tomorrow. :) thanks again, hun, love, K xo

  • majestique

    majestique

    Wonderfully descriptive
    The only thing to top this is a kiss that lasts as long (or longer) than it took me to read this
    :)

  • Kristin Reynolds replied

    :) what a cool comment, thank you so much. xo

  • Satyriasis73

    Satyriasis73

    “breath-taking” =)

    couldnt help myself there.. wow.. this is incredible.. just when i thought you were going to end it you just kept making it better.. almost like i could hear the kiss myself.. the breathing.. perfecto

    =)

  • Kristin Reynolds replied

    thanks, man. :) I’m so glad you got into it that way, that’s awesome to hear. :) love, k xo

  • JRGarland

    JRGarland

    Ahhh to know such beauty exists. I can only imagine the intensity of the love you expressed so wonderfully. You are indeed blessed.

  • Kristin Reynolds replied

    JR, I wish you all the love and passion in the world. xoxoxoxoxoxox

  • Erika .

    Erika .

    WOW….What more can I say? XXX

  • Kristin Reynolds replied

    nothing at all, that says it. :) love, K xo

  • happyfeet5

    happyfeet5

    Ahhhhh. You’ve made me want to sing to this beautiful song and dance to it. For that is what it is a perfect song. Iris

  • Kristin Reynolds replied

    thanks, iris, you are so sweet. :) love, K xo

  • Philosophy Lee

    Philosophy Lee

    “skin
    before equal
    skin”

    You’ve just raised the bar Kristin.
    This piece makes me feel… so… good.

  • Kristin Reynolds replied

    Wow, thanks, Lee, that means alot. :) I’m so glad it made you feel good, that’s always awesome to hear. :) xo

  • Jack Grace

    Jack Grace

    You have expressed the “kiss” moment sublime.

  • Kristin Reynolds replied

    Thank you so much, man, I appriciate that completely. :) xo

  • lupa

    lupa

    aaaah K!!!You weave the most amazing spells, Dear Heart…adore your soul and heart and your magic.xoxox

  • Kristin Reynolds replied

    I’m glad to hear it – that’s why i’m here. ;) lol I adore yours right back. MWAH! xo

  • Blanchot

    Blanchot

    Once you finish reading my praises here, seek me out, for I am filled with kisses for you forever. You are certainly a Canuk, a magpie to be exact, for you crept into my frenzied gray mass and took this from me. Cliched as this sounds, I can no longer imagine what it would be to kiss another woman. I no longer recall those whose kisses were better than other’s. In short, you have left me with a single, solitary, infinite Kiss, the Platonic ideal of Kiss, which shall never be surpassed for I will never allow it to be replaced. My god, how long I could go on about what our kissing one another is like, it is more an experience than a mere action. You mention of breath is especially pertinent, as I can think of little that gives me more joy than the transformation of the rythym of your breathing as we kiss. It is one of the more insistent ways in which you say, “I love you.”

    While it is certainly difficult for me to separate the kiss from the poem on the kiss, I can say with the most strident elaborations of certainty that were I to have run across this poem from an absolute stranger, I would immediately know that I had discovered someone who I need to read more of so as to feed my various linguistic addictions. As Satyraisis73 noted, there are a number of natural terminal points within this piece. My background mind saying, “Now I can really think on this.” Yet, on it went. The fact that each of the transitions is seamless testifies to your always-closer-to-mastery of this untamable form of writing. Feed me more. My soul needs more than your presence; it requires your words just as ardently. I love you, beautiful girl.
    Coming for that Kiss, Me

  • Kristin Reynolds replied

    you got it. :)

    it is more an experience than a mere action. _ that is the everything part; the meaning behind it all. it is: The Exchange. it is the meeting place before the _meeting – it is the entrace to the Being
    it is the combining and the give/take of life itself.
    I covet and give it, both.
    I love it.
    I never want to not experience it.
    your comment makes me blush and proud at the same time – thank you, always dear,
    love, Kat. xo

  • RosaCobos

    RosaCobos

    Because you have made us remember that the mouth is the threshold of the flooding silence.this poem well deservers it.
    Rosa

  • Kristin Reynolds replied

    yes, that’s it exactly. Thank you so much, sweet Rosa, what an honor. :)
    xoxoxoxoxoxox love, Kristin

  • Skypilot

    Skypilot

    A poem stolen from my own heart as it slept.

  • Kristin Reynolds replied

    What to say? A sleeping heart is a dead one. The shock of life coming back around, like paddles, wakes it from the eart, bringing it fresh red arterial blood, from which blooms the most beautiful flowers.
    You must know the 2 words I want to say, but how can I? they are so little, you know my heart. let it speak.
    xo

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