"Soft & Smooth" by David Pring-Mill, Poet of the Week

Soft & Smooth

David Pring-Mill

 

She is soft,

not only

in her body

but throughout her whole presence,

the way she moves and speaks.

The softness of her blonde hair

is also in her voice;

It’s a uniformed existence.

That voice, at times,

comes with a sudden upswell

of pitch, bringing with it

the erratic pressures

of her accent.

After a passionate kiss,

her pale blue

eyes grow wide

and lost in feeling.

Poet's Notes:  "Soft & Smooth" is one of those poems that come most directly from my personal life. As such, it's really just a record of observation, vaguely similar to my poem "Today," which recorded my miscalculation in carrying around an umbrella http://www.songsoferetz.com/2016/06/today-by-david-pring-mill-frequent.html.  Obviously, this poem is romantic whereas "Today" was not, but both works could also have been diary entries if I kept a diary.