Challenge
Dear Prosers, I dare you write about the erotic, an almost taboo topic for poets in Prose. You can come up with either a piece of prose or a poem indeed. “Writing The Erotic” Brainstorm a list of mundane activities not usually though of as erotic--washing the dishes or the car, mowing the lawn, going to the dentist. Now, make a list of nouns associated with that activity. Then make a list of verbs and adjectives that you associate with sex. Stir everything together, and make the mundane activity sound positively orgasmic. (Activity taken from “The Poet’s Companion” by Kim Addonizio & Dorianne Laux)
Pomegranate Rain
Pomegranate storms rage in shadowed past;
Sheets tossed and stained in reddest desire.
Two pomegranate seeds planted deeply,
Between hungry lips, there for the taking.
A sweetened voice whispers from the darkness
Breaking each strand of life my heart still has.
A sweetened voice crying from deepest depths
Of a passion long since buried and done.
Pomegranate rain falls from moisten lips,
Never to be tasted that way again.
A pomegranate dream escapes my mind,
Memory to haunt me to my last days.
A picture frayed in black and faded white
A final memory tossed to the flames.
A picture stained, pomegranate crimson
The one I can’t lose, as the fires blaze.