Mint Julep
Sometimes between dreamtime and getting ready for the day.. my shower is my holy ground.. my bathroom becomes my alter, my area of transition to The world At Large…
Mint Julep belongs to the following groups:
Complex Simplicity of Art, Core [C.O.R.E], Deep Within, Feminine Intent (LIMIT TWO IMAGES PER DAY), in-between, Light In The Darkness, Nirvana (Only 1 photographic art and 1 written work will be accepted per day ), The Healing Journey, THE SISTERHOOD and Up & Coming WritersI am stumbling toward the soap bar
And shower
Mint Julep
Fresco!
The smell saunters thru my
Memories
Here is Francisco now,
Young and tired
In the slums
In love with anyone who might bring
Him hope,
Deep long look into my eyes,
A trick to make me feel young too
Coco colored and gorgeous smiles
I floated away with four bars instead of one.
I am pestered this morning with love on
My mind
He, my lover, is distant and strains to find
His footing,
I wash my legs and my toes,
Scrub scrub scrub.
My breasts look lovely in the
Shower,
Brisk awakening
I take my time and ponder this life’s
Work.
Why do showers do this to me?
The pounding on my body is like
Standing up to my soul who wants
Way too much from me.
Streams of hot jets
Steam and clarity reaching my
Nostrils
Water,
I am 78% water
Why not just mutate
To the greater part of me?
Float down the drain
Make my way to the river
Make my way to the endless ocean
This world awaits
As I turn off my transformation
Large Cotton Very white towel,
Outside the steam room and the
Mirror so fogged I cannot see
What another day of living has
Done to me,
Awaits lists and To Do’s a mile long
What I really desire
Is Spain and Francisco’s stall,
And his eyes
Believing I am 21 again.
Linaji 2009
valzart
Aww this is absolutely wonderful writing it gave me goose-bumps sweetheART ;}x happy hippy hugglez
linaji replied
for some reason I am late on the reply.. this is a mean alot to me piece and I would come back to read it and then I would see all of these wonderful commets and my heart was fulll full fulll…xooxxo
Patricia Anne ...
heehee OMG this really paints a emmm quite a picture in my arty mind :) great descriptions
linaji replied
tee hee Patricia.. your just wonderful!!
Linda Ridpath
i agree with val. goosebumps all over. lovely work linaji xxxxx
Ove Bohnhorst
beautiful writing lina…. wish I had your way with words :)) fav!
...ove
Amber Elizabet...
Aww lovely lovely writing hugs to you lil me xx
Judi Taylor
Your misty shower dreaming is like a little bit of heaven to me. It took me back to the dreams that float on the vapors of my own showers. Yes, they do that to me too, Lina. Your description was so vivid … so real … so alive … it was me in the shower smelling the smells and longing for the youth of me and Francisco … whoever Francisco is! :)
No matter, I can read Francisco and be taken away ….
linaji replied
You are one big sista.. xoxo
silverstrummer...
Oh beautiful indeed the smell of a shower so clean with the droplets of water cascading down your body gives you such a sensual romantic time you have in the shower …........ but it does make you think that way when your in the shower more so than a bath. Your poetry is absolutely beautiful and always in perspective. Stunningly and Beautifully written! and a fav.
- David :>))
linaji replied
Wow David.. I missed this altogether.. what an amazing commet. I so appreciate you and am humbled by your words.. Makes me feel like drinkin one.. smile.. appreciate the fav too… xox
Astoreth
AH gorgeous darling….I feel the same way!! xxxx
sulaartist
Great !!
Mary Ann Reilly
this made me cry. I’d love to be inside your mind for a day…
linaji replied
I kept coming here to read this comment.. you mean alot to me.. I just saw your post and your news… willl commet and view tomorrow.. thank you so very very much Mary Ann.. xo
kenspics
Wow… showering will never be the same again!!
Incredible writing!!!
Nala
Wonderful words again , , , you just astound me with your words well done
Tom Broderick IPA
loved it . tom
roy skogvold
another strong and honest work
lovely
...roy
izzybeth
this is so beautifully written. It is a simple and vivid poem. crystal clear
RosaCobos
The age in which… one was made a woman…
so they tell…
when I was 21 you here in Spain you got to the adult life.. and then you had some rights and thousand obligations.
I cannot remember…. if this re-member comes from the re-creating and not re-producing old times of innocence…oh…. the shower… it comes to suply a sweet caress… sliding along the body… moulding fatigue and dreams.
Do you really wish Spain….?
Made me smile… and you know you are wellcome anytime you may come….but here.. too… we have lost our past innocence… that false innocence that 40 years of dictatorship and fear…. had been left in our character… but behind it.. it can emerge as usual a very harsh and brutal confidence in the instincts…
A hug Lina-ji…... in the book I am re-reading now….it explains what the sufix ji meanins in Tamil language…..
Rosa-ji…...
nkbellani
hmmmahhhh….......wonderful
Larasolnishko
I am happy that you are fond of your own body, it is rare gift this days…
Keith Reesor
I could picture it all Linaji!! Wonderful!! :)
ShadowDancer
I love your descriptions, I was there in the shower right with you! (so to speak…) I wish I looked 21 again, that’s for sure! Love the dreaminess in this…
Gregory John O...
Nice…. I love starting the day just letting the water flow over me in the shower…... after 15 years on drought though it is a bit if an indulgence
Sally Omar
Awesome writing…we all want to look like 21 again…you really ROCK!!!!!!!!!!! xoxooxoxoxoxo
Erhan OZBIYIK
WOW !
Great one Lina :))
HUGS :)