National Poetry Month Challenge - Day 26

The prompt for today was to write a water-themed poem.

photography by Cristina Norcross (Lake Geneva, WI)

Bathed in You

Your gaze cascades

over my skin like water.

I live inside the tide –

the give and sway –

the push and pull –

your full moon gravity.

As weightless as water bugs,

we float –

suspended in time –

eyes turned upward

to an aquamarine sky.

Hand in hand –

fish glide beneath us –

drawn to this island of you and me.

I come up for air,

letting the rush of sound

awaken ears –

skin bathed in sudden oxygen.

I look to you.

“Cover me again in water,”

I say.

“Envelop me

in the deepest, darkest blue.”

Cristina M. R. Norcross

Copyright 2014