Crimson Kisses

Meandering

In the invisible

Basking

In the fairy shine

Cheek upturned

Towards the glittering

Dots and lines

Eyes close

Lips part

White instantaneously

Melts to wet

Overcome

By desire

And deep-seated regret

Delicate

Transient

Revealing the intangible

Floating

Dancing

Rushing in frigid instances

Hovering

Flakes afloat

They fly and flurry

Stop

And drop

Then again, they begin to scurry

Clumping and bumping

The wind howls

Blizzarding

Scarlet reflects

In the strands of light

Shimmering

As a blurred figure

Draws nearer my site

Across the

Crystal-swept plane

Gliding

Dropping petals

In the steps left

A trail

Stark

Sanguine

Finally,

A form transfigures

What I swear

To be a thorny stem

A lithe figure

Clearing

In the snowy mist

Velvet black braid

Swings

Steadily

As he advances

With lips

Like a

Rose

Petal-soft

And crimson red

Through the storm

He steps

Firm

With grace

A dancer’s strength

Taking center stage

Sweeping flourish

I’m floating off

my feet

Flakes by the thousand

Grace

My face

As we silently

Meld

Into the disappearing

Landscape

Resuming my

Aimless trek

White

Powdery dunes

Slowly softening

Roundly swallowing

All traces of

Our mystic

Whistling

Escape

Wind

Sweeping bridges of ice

Across

The horizon

Waltzing

On thin sheets

Of white

Spiraling

Stacking

Like a staircase

Leading

To fluffy white clouds

Of endlessly

Falling

Snow

K.B. Silver

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This is one of my more experimental pieces, with a format designed to evoke the sensation of falling snow. It looked like the formatting held until I published it, which is highly frustrating. I am including screenshots of the original format. I chose the time between the beginning and the mysterious end of a midnight stroll in the falling snow to set this entry to the Somewhere Between Here and There challenge prompt.