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Description: Poetry—117 words.
Commentary: When originally written this poem was titled, Des Amants—an error upon my part.
Les Amoureuses, French for, The Lovers, is an attempt to capture a budding romance between people with the fresh scars of previous entanglements. But this also describes physical attraction. The poem’s phrase “feigning sacrifice” alludes to providing solace while harboring desire. It is a frequent occurrence, I think, and in some cases merely a pretense. Beyond this, the poem was written for the sheer pleasure of composing the imagery.
—DL Tolleson
LES AMOUREUSES
DL Tolleson
An aquamarine sky
Giving dusk to days,
Melted the horizon,
With lime-blue twilight rays.
The lights of the city
Kindling to bright,
While the sounds of evening
Murmured a summer night.
They sat together in
The tap-water wind,
Creating new warmth with
Wounded hearts on the mend.
They motored to the east—
To her home far away
Violet tensed warm—
Desires barely at bay.
They embraced each other,
Feigning sacrifice.
The past soothed cool in
His eyes—like cold blue ice.
Her lips caressed his neck,
Bronze red across tan:
Her teeth touched his pulse,
Stark white into the man.
The dark wore into dawn,
Vague in fever heat.
And when they parted,
They vowed another meet.
