Get Your Premium Membership

Valencia Lust

O, Valencia's prized possession, perfected in your prime, to pluck you without resistance from a beaming, bowing branch... Gravity's gentle transaction would roll like attraction into my open palm. To feel your textured tenderness within an easy grip, senses saturated with sun kissed sleekness... How juicy you must be underneath your polished peel. Tenderness is just one press away from these longing lips. Digging in, cuticles' thirst would be quenched like a manicure's pleasure. The citrus mist would burst beneath your flesh with the sound of captive release, freedom's sigh. Fragrant as orange blossoms under active inhales, sweet as honey perfumery, tantalizing taste buds would smoothly squeeze your ethereal pulp upon them, dripping with delectable desire fulfilled. Seamless in freshness, unblemished, each bite would be a lover's delight, binding beauty, external with internal in this connoisseur's lifelong find. 2-18-2020

Copyright © | Year Posted 2020




Post Comments

Poetrysoup is an environment of encouragement and growth so only provide specific positive comments that indicate what you appreciate about the poem. Negative comments will result your account being banned.

Please Login to post a comment

Date: 2/6/2021 8:00:00 PM
So glad to find this delightful tribute published in the 2020 PS Anthology ~
Login to Reply
Ligon Avatar
Juliet Ligon
Date: 2/6/2021 8:50:00 PM
Aww, thanks Line. I see yours in there as well. Nice variety. (Now you know my real name. Shhhh.)
Date: 3/6/2020 5:51:00 PM
you certainly caught its sunkissed orange essence, Juliet. I was there in '74 right at the time of the fallas. Will never forget it and the beautiful sea nearby!
Login to Reply
Date: 2/22/2020 10:52:00 PM
Juliet, I love the zest you put into your poem 'Valencia Lust'. I can taste & smell this tangy delight. But beware the open wound that sings in citrus' sting. -Richard
Login to Reply
Ligon Avatar
Juliet Ligon
Date: 2/24/2020 12:31:00 AM
Thanks for your witty and inciteful comments, Richard. I'd forgotten about the sting that comes from loving a citrus when a wound is fresh. Poetic hugs.
Date: 2/20/2020 3:14:00 AM
Congrats my friend on your top win!;)
Login to Reply
Ligon Avatar
Juliet Ligon
Date: 2/21/2020 6:55:00 PM
Thanks, Brenda.
Date: 2/19/2020 10:23:00 PM
Juliet, oranges are my all-time favorite fruit so it's gratifying to see some citrus lust committed to poetic pen (though maybe there is some subtext hinted at in that delicious ambiguity...) Love this, congrats on the win ~ John
Login to Reply
Ligon Avatar
Juliet Ligon
Date: 2/21/2020 6:51:00 PM
Thanks, John. If you use your imagination it could be about a lover that smells like orange perfume, but really it's just about the desire of a fresh orange. Poetic hugs.
Date: 2/19/2020 9:12:00 PM
Organges are extremely proud now..they are rolling away when I tried to take..Your poetry had made the humble oranges dignified..
Login to Reply
Ligon Avatar
Juliet Ligon
Date: 2/21/2020 6:43:00 PM
Thanks, Jenish.
Date: 2/19/2020 7:47:00 PM
who knew an orange could be so enticing... the use of vivid imagery and your choice words made this one beautiful and somewhat sensual... great write Juliet... loved it... hugs
Login to Reply
Ligon Avatar
Juliet Ligon
Date: 2/21/2020 6:48:00 PM
Thanks, Sandra. Fruit is a sensual experience for me especially when it's fresh. We have a mini orchard and I'm looking forward to much fruit in the future. Unfortunately oranges don't grow in our climate though. Hugs.
Date: 2/19/2020 4:16:00 PM
Must confess Juliet-- I was drawn to read this as I visited Valencia, Spain, as a young man--and though it was over 1/2 a century ago, I can still relate, though I can as well as a lover of sweet oranges [which is about all the fun my wife lets me have anymore!] Congrats on your win!
Login to Reply
Ligon Avatar
Juliet Ligon
Date: 2/19/2020 5:15:00 PM
Thanks, L. J. I had the pleasure of visiting Spain when I was 21, but oddly the inspiration came from our planting of fruit trees yesterday. Though none of them are orange trees, I long to partake of fresh fruit in a couple years.

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry