Winter Delights

Sweet smells of alluring spice

permeate the morning air;

seducing odors now entice

teasing, tempting to this lair...

Aroused by the delights within,

await the feasting to begin.

©   Ginny Brannan December 2012

         

A little fun with word-play. Baking today. Seriously.

Argiope

Dressed to kill--

  Spinning this silken web of deceit,

  a trail of victims at your feet

  come to face their mortality

Photo: G. Brannan

Patiently…

  lying in wait on satin thread

  to entice, entangle in your bed,

  their lives forfeit--they can never flee.

Argiope…

  open legs respond to lightest touch…

  the unsuspecting limp, in your clutch,

  your ‘muse’-like name cloaks your verocity.

Copyright Ginny Brannan 2010
Photo taken by author, personal collection

Undercurrents

"Hello, how are you?

Good to see you again.

How’s the family doing?

See you’ve made new friends."

"Yeah, I’m fine, not much new

since you and I last spoke."

We chat politely, hold that line--

even share a joke.

Just below the surface

feel that subtle undertow,

cannot change our current course

set so long ago.

So we chat politely,

and only dip our toe…

ignore the undercurrent,

then we turn and go.

©Copyright  Ginny Brannan June 2010
Internet Photo "Holding Hands" India
Shared One Stop Poetry One Shot Wednesday Week 45
http://onestoppoetry.com/2011/05/one-shot-wednesday-week 45

Posted at d'Verse Poets Pub, Poetics "Undercurrents." It's been shared once before, but with a poem sharing the same title as the prompt, I couldn't resist sharing again!