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Lydia Rae Bush Poetry

Tag: lust

More Than All the Space

February 8, 2022February 8, 2022 Alphabet Ravine12 Comments

You have no act or game,
but the boy with the guard up gets pretty far,
so you follow him at a distance, down the path he paves.

You take my consent to him as your encouragement,
and though it would have been so unlike you,
you should have used your privileges sooner-
You had them before he did.
Still, your truth is perfect-

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Mr. Above It All

December 14, 2021December 13, 2021 Alphabet Ravine7 Comments

You primal man!
You human being!

With twitching groin and heated breathing
misting as a waterfall out onto heaving neck.

One of millions staying home,
desiring food and craving sex.

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Caress

August 9, 2019August 5, 2019 Alphabet Ravine11 Comments

By one caress, my fingers had met
the last of the warts
that reside on your hand.

By one year of caressing, however,
you’d encountered the first of the
burns that traverse
my fingers.

I kiss your abnormalities,Read More »

What Went Wrong (Ebony’s Song)

May 31, 2019May 31, 2019 Alphabet Ravine2 Comments

I’ve the story memorized.
I could write a whole book, film a movie.
I can quote our every line.
Why’s it matter so much,
why’s it grip me?

There was waiting, anticipating.
We were rooting for oh, so long.
Then the ending, sudden grating-Read More »

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