Painting
But completion
arrives in the most
limited sense,
outlines enriched and
filled with lush
darkness, the red of
an accumulated passion
for texture, for subtlety in
shade, the tactile being
one facet shared with
odor and the black hand
on the wall, the
staircase spiraling
upward, resultant desire,
body of lust, this wall, our
doing, the gathered home.
O at the Edges 
Different concept ! liked it 🙂
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Thank you, Chitkala.
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A real gift to see a RO poem on Christmas Eve.
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Always a pleasure to have you visit, Jeff. Thanks very much.
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Happy Christmas eve Okaji
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And to you, Pooja. Thank you.
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I’ve taken this poem in a slightly different way. Perhaps I’ve had too much cake. I love it.
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Eat more cake! No telling what will happen then. 🙂
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If you say so, I shall. I can’t be responsible for my actions though.
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You must. And the cake gets all the blame (but none of the credit).
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As always I enjoyed the collision of images and sensations and the strands of meaning that lead in multiple directions.
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Thanks, Dennis. It helps to start off in confusion, as I so often do. 🙂
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I imagine hands on the wall, arms and legs entangled in passion on the stairs. ..lovely and warm. Thank you. Jx
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I’m so pleased you found that in the poem. I was younger when I wrote this – today’s version would likely reflect sore backs and arthritic joints (but no less passion). 🙂
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Lol, me too! Ah, such is life…we make the most of it in many different ways 😎
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Wonderful!
Merry Christmas, Robert! 🙂
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Thank you, Andreea. Merry Christmas to you, too!
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I too once owned a bookstore, and I sailed with my husband, and I live in New York with my “constant companion and friend in old age” and two dogs, and I like your poetry and the spiral when I click in and click in and see into the holes of the treads. Thank you.
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Thanks very much for clicking in. It seems we have much in common – art and life, life and art.
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In awe! Amazing.
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Thank you.
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And you have mastered painting with words. 😊 Bravo!! Thank you, as always, for sharing your gift. 🎨📝
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You are very kind. Thank you.
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This was good reading! Each word has its place, not to many not to few.
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Thank you. I try to carve away the words that don’t fit…
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