This one is awesome, Jude:)
Sheila

temptation mounting and it sho do feel/sounds good
it moves

You are way too cool for school, Forese. I adore the tantalising reciprocity of this mutual solicitation, the sulty tango of lips and hands responding to creation/creativity's slow dance. Was this a bit different originally? You have sharpened the focus, I think, to make it more obviously a mutual engagement, and defined this female as somewhat "gypsy". In my post-ether haze, I seem to remember reading the first version with a strong image, not of a hard-working "scarlet" lady, but as a fragile corps de ballet dancer, rushing for the night bus along the seamy streets of theatreland, after a premiere of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. I felt that lifting of her skirt like a poetic breeze, the rush of bypassing traffic rippling the hemline of her delicate chiffon dress as it still lingered beneath her tightly-clutched gabardine... You know how I just "see" things. Well... post-anaesthesia, I may be in a complete neon mist about this, who knows, but I do love the idea that we ALL want to know how such "pretty poetry" comes about, seeking to peek beneath it's skirt to see how it's done, when we stop to admire it. So what DO Scotsmen wear beneath their kilts??!! :)) Apart from that, my not-so "back-street" partial labotomy seems to have been a success, as doubtless will become evident in due course! One of your most adorable pieces - and smart! xx

Metaphoric creation which lubricates understanding of the process that reveals the written word. Seductively brilliant...

Lin

Really nicely engineered Jude. The first couplet sets your intention unambiguously and the last leaves the whole thought process in a sensual light. Enjoyed.

Truly a lovely and expressive write, Jude. Thank you. Love and peace to you,

Regis

Beautifully expressed!

Love it
Steph

Love it.

What a tease... for a man... ;-)

Ron

wonderful and creative!

Wow Jude this is great and one of my favorites. thank you for sharing.

Newfie hugs, Rose

Truly one of your better writes my friend, you did have me seeing that lady in the night and smiling back at her proffered welcome.
Fee

What I find so incredible about your poetry is one can find about 17 different meanings (or is it 18?) in every line...you can interpret it so many ways and it's really thought-provoking. This speaks to me of coming out of a writer's block, solicitating the mysterious harlot of poetic verse in the mind who lends for a brief moment the beauty of words to grace the parchment.

I'm adding this to my list of favs from you Jude. It's getting to be a very long list. I find this to be an exceptional piece of writing that makes the reader think carefully about your use of similies and metaphors and then is left, once again, in awe of your talent. I'm looking forward to your next book.
Hugs,
Marcia

Original, seductive, and passionate....isn't that what we writers strive for? This is excellent, Jude.

Excellent piece of writing.

Cheers,
Dan

When we undress out thoughts in the creativity of writing a poem it is there in its wildest form for all to see and admire.

There are wet dreams...and there are wet poems, which is which?

Georg

Beauty resides in the winds of subtle words....

Be always safe,
Karen

Make sure they are moths and not flies she is attracting by her perfume or lack there of...;-) Ed

Don't Touch!

Ahhh! So that headiness I get when the words come spilling from my soul, onto the page is poetic seduction...The solicitation of a thought in a provocative dance…twisting and turning, scenting the air with creative perfume. Very cool poem, Jude. You Rock!!
Take care,
Sherry

Jude: Your poem came in under a different title. Just to let you know. I really like this short poem about creativity and sexuality. Once, the author of Mickey and the Night Kitchen said on radio that everything in life is sexual. Hm. But anyway, i think the phallic image of the pole that the "feminine form" is leaning against is interesting. I was confused, at first. I thought you were leaning. that's just because of the comma after form. then i got it. Metamorphic moths, is it? Interesting. In the past few days, moths have been on my mind a lot lately. Moths on the Mind. But anyway, I like the way you pull together the media (paper) with the conjured form on the pavement. The alliteration is nice too. And then, the end, lifting the skirt of a poem's undress -- how much more tantalizing such a line is than outright statements. i like the subtlety, is what i mean. the poem's undress reminds me of what that sculptor -- was it Rodin? said about sculpting. the idea is just to free the image, the work, trapped in, or inside of the stone. it's there; one just has to "see" it, and it will appear. it's interesting, because so many of us labor at exactly the right words, when maybe we should approach the poem as "what words do I leave out?" (many!) Anyway, I do like this one. it's sensual and it shows your love, even need of, poetry.

Beckoning energy arousal inspired,
No mortal can resist her charms,
Only sorcery shall allow release
turning the tide on your captured soul.

Once caught in her tangled web
finding freedom to lift that skirt of a poem's undress,
to find mortal pleasures within poetic madness
entwined beneath an enlightened voluptuous volcano

Bewitched and be aware,
Of the trappings of the night,
for fatal pleasures can grab
manly desires and turn the night into day!

I guess I needed to respond to this poem of solicitation...
Watch out for her, you never know where you will end up!

I loved this poem, Jude, can you tell?

Much love, light and peace,
Amber "V"

Inspiring, I'd say. ;-)

unique and mastrful as always...

Topographical, keeping abreast of the deep cleavage of the dunes, streetwalkers, madams and pimps - compensation and illegal obligation - solicitation negotiates the price of poetry and a ritual offering to be made as opposed to rubble amidst the rice fields. Observant and up close view of the sex worker of this century...

Sage