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Friday, October 06, 2017

The Siren Décolletage Mocks Me

Don’t confuse
their ubiquity
with mundanity.

Sadly,
in the employ
of marketing,
they are profaned,
on slick,
air-brushed
magazine covers.

Different hues,
fingerprint creases
and folds
and curves
curves
curves
in magical, mystical
sacred geometric
shapes.

“Save the Ta-Tas.”
“Squeeze your Boobies.”
Change your avi
for the month
and flash them
to the world.

Self-exploitation
for the greater good
is advocacy.

Still,
the mystery
of that delicate skin
upon the breastbone,

the hint of
shadows falling
in between,

still cast their spell
on me,

as I remain
in perpetual
outstretched
hunger

for connection,
for communion,
for restoration.

My lifelong desire
for embrace
to the eternally
warm, soft
female bosom,

to correct the deficiency
of a non-breastfeeding
mother,

remains unrequited,

as the magazine cover
silently mocks “no”
and you’re just
too tired.

[Written for Fireblossom's Challenge at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/10/fireblossom-friday-i-put-spell-on-you.html.]

13 comments:

  1. An old spell indeed. I like the connection you make between the non breastfeeding mother and the eternal quest for the soft female breast.

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  2. Nice poem of praise to females.

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  3. We all want to save the "Ta-Ta's" for sure. A beautiful ode' to them here. Honest, lovely, and smile worthy. Love it!

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  4. Breasts are so out there these days, I thought they may have lost their mystique.

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  5. I like Carrie thought there might be a breast overload. :)

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  6. The title certainly piques the interest Buddah! As an owner of a pair, I've never felt the urge to write an ode to breasts, but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate yours (ode not breasts)! Yes, there are a lot of them about, particularly in advertising and on the front of magazines, which does get on women's tits - some of us get fed up with seeing other people's when it took years to get used to our own. Thank you for this tribute to our curves.

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  7. I do understand that pull. It's like reading cookbooks when you're starved.

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    1. Exactly. And I'm a woman. It took a few years and tears, but I completely changed my opinion about this issue as it pertains to marriage. Women need to lighten up and/or put out. All people do.

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  8. indeed the beauty and attraction of life giving feminine forces... everybody needs a 🤗

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  9. Mine are two islands of perfection surrounded by wasteland. I keep waiting for the magazine photo shoot offers to come pouring in. *cricket* *cricket*

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  10. From "Still the mystery" down is completely captivating. Brilliant poem.

    I'm a fan of nudity, especially artistic. I think the obscenity is covering the body up, trying to make people feel bad about loving their bodies, and others'. *That's* sick. Someone is twisted here, and it isn't me. Trees are naked, and lusting after the wind's fingers and tongues. What's wrong with that. Nothing!

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  11. Anonymous11:34 AM

    The female inside feels happy and awesomely written poem, my friend.

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