Hand in Hand

Tenaciously, our hands embrace,

sweet nuance found in soft caress...

Emboldened, fingers intertwine--

with thumb on back of hand, you trace

against bare skin...feel stir within...

in tethered warmth, I acquiesce.
Then quickened heart anticipates

through promises conveyed, unspoken;

and sharing secrets once repressed,

you whisper faintly in my ear

in language only love translates.

Our shadows dance upon the wall

in a myriad of shifting shapes;

then palm to palm, your touch palpates

to kindle fire, hand in hand.

©  Ginny Brannan January 2013

Sharing at d'Verse Poets Pub Open Link Night Week #80

Written for The Mag #152, image provided by Tess Kincaid

She provides the image, we the story!

I decided to try my hand (no pun intended) at this form, a sort of Free Verse with structure. 

Introduced at d'Verse Poets Form For All: David James Carousels and Weaves.

This style is called a Weave. It can be written in two line stanzas, five line stanzas, or no separate stanzas at all. 

Its rhyme scheme follows this pattern: abcad befbg ehiej (and so on).

The first and fourth lines rhyme,  the second line rhyme from the first stanza becomes the rhyme for the first and fourth lines in the following stanza, so the second line from stanza one "weaves" into stanza two; the second line from stanza two "weaves" into stanza three. This form has no definitive number of lines. (*My one slight 'veer' off format, the internal rhyme in L5)