A couple of years ago I won a Valentine’s Day writing contest. I enjoyed writing the piece and not to mention the trip to Cuba that I got as first place winner! The poem below was originally published in the Tantem/Corriere Canadese here in Toronto back in 2005. I hope you enjoy it!
ENDLESS
Sensual expectations
enthralled in cosmic lucidities,
enraptured hopes caught in the moon’s
dribbling spells
drifting along the moon-laced streets
dreaming of unexpected love
beyond tragic nights—
In a transfixed gaze holding beating
bodies exasperated for eternity in ecstasy
through the emaciated signs of time
and brooding years—
Soothing flesh of heaving thoughts
confronting the morning sun
with unquestioned love;
the roots that appear in open doorways
never come adjust on the lenses
of eternal sanctuaries left to pray
beyond the horizon abyss,
the sleeping embers of the dying night—
Now come creep through
the labyrinth of unabashed
ecstasy and leave no questions asked—
the hours have come to hold
the flesh of time silent and calm
until the breathing of the sycamores
melt towards the infinite drive
of time and becomes
one with the fading stars
within the endless night
Brian Trota
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