Tag Archives: tender

Tender

Posted on October 25, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. The grass grows greener beneath a shared umbrella– Tender shoots tremble.

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Silk

Posted on October 5, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems Flowers in the dark smell different from flowers not in the dark. Hands part silk to sunder the gauzy veils of sleep with tenderest unconditional regards.

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Slow Burn

Posted on August 22, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Time aloneleaves us smallcherished pleasuresthrough which our livesare gathered slowlyin momentsof favored ephemera.

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Twilight

Posted on June 30, 2022 by John Biscello

Twilight is seductively meek. Every day, at day’s end, it inherits the earth through valentine quivers and softcore volitions of symmetry— the sky, at its supple mercy, bruises so easily, pale liminal purple adoring the tenderest wounds between lovers merging … Continue reading →

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Slowtorch

Posted on June 3, 2018 by John Biscello

Beneath the cauterized furies, and unspent silences, amounting to greater deficit, there is, and always has been, at heart’s nimbus base, a soft, wistful melancholy, not unlike the adagio threads of rain silvering the opened palms of a small child, … Continue reading →

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Margin

Posted on April 22, 2018 by John Biscello

Beyond these margins, lies something that is yours, yes, an intimate claim.

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Claim

Posted on April 18, 2018 by John Biscello

Some kind of tender, hard to find its truest name– words fail to claim touch.

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N.

Posted on April 17, 2018 by John Biscello

Sssshhh, gently now, gently, Love, the slippered guest, the tender trespasser, enters the house of wet leaves, softly, finger pressed to asking lips, no more questions, just this: the sound of rain, pealing, to bless storied thirst.

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Prelude

Posted on April 10, 2018 by John Biscello

Small, slow kiss, followed by lips mowing soft petals– How to eat a rose.

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Sacrament

Posted on April 10, 2018 by John Biscello

The tenderest shoots, she offered as nuptials– Blood, green to the touch.

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