Salt
From the amazing show The Great, about Peter and Catherine’s unhinged and brutal love. In Catherine’s perspective of intense grief.
Salt.
The way it hits your baritone mood, your slippery tongue,
The way your morose passions were lit up inside like an erupting avalanche of hellfire
when you had it at the back of your thirsting throat, sitting there as if a part of your very red blooded soul
So wanton and aching
So vicious and quaint,
The reason of the season was how you dappled in the erroneous simplicity of salt
As though it were a secret section of plaintive sin
And I
Fucking lived and
Loved
You for it.
Salt.
I taste your salt now,
In a sea of my fervent
Blessings and gushing sinew,
A storm of our mixed bones overflowing with
The maddening and potent taste of you.
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Visceral is the only word I can use to describe this work - it has me almost speechless! Well done!
Nice poem.
Gorgeous. ❤❤❤
Amazing poem! I love that show so much!
This is great! Very impassioned!
Amazing .. check my stories too
Nice poem... congratulations on TS...
Lovely poem sis and a well deserved reward
"Salt. I taste your salt now, In a sea of my fervent Blessings and gushing sinew, A storm of our mixed bones overflowing with The maddening and potent taste of you." Well damn. I just read a poem I know will end up in a literary magazine one day. Fantastic work on this. And that song fits it in a way I wouldn't have expected; the added depth makes for quite the experience here. You say grief, I see anger and hear impassioned sadness. Just...wow.
Pretty much the same reason a dog likes to lick your hands & face. There's salt among them thar pheromones!
Yayyyyy congratulations on your Top Story! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
so so so good! every word is working so powerfully! the tension, emotion, passion and ache are all delivered so masterfully! Congrats on a stunning TS!
Nice work...and I was just listening to Ms. Spektor on a podcast...Perfect.
This is awesome!!! Beautifully written!!@ Loved ir!! Congratulations on Top Story!!!💕❤️❤️
Yay 👏 Friend, Congratulations 🎉 💖🍭🎉💚😁📝😉🧡Great Job On This Piece🎉🎉🎉🎉
Congratulations to You 🌸☺️we have familiar way of uniting song and poems writing I listened to Her for quite a period in my life 🥰
Excellent piece. Congrats on the TS.
Congratulations on your Top Story, well deserved
Back to say congratulations on Top Story, Melissa!
This was so intense and emotional! Loved your choices of words. You were so brilliant!
Brilliant work!
Beautiful.
Vivid imagery. Well done!
Passionate and visceral... beautifully done 💙Anneliese
Intense feeling imagery here 👏