Your friendship is
A ring on both our fingers
We can bury it for years
It won’t tarnish
You crossed over to my world
And climbing through my window
You left muddy footprints spoiling the plain carpet forever
When I go to look for you
I hear your rustling words like music
Taste feelings like rain on my tongue
You made a fetish of me and wear it around your neck
I keep your calipso dance beneath my iron bed
For when I am alone
You are there
Velvet pocketed and never faltering
My love is
A brand I welcome
As we cannot exchange skins
We can remove our fear
Let it hang neglected on a clothes peg
Whilst we kick off our shoes
Feel the vibration of knowing
In each other is the river
Reflecting on shining surface
Deeply felt things, resting below.
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This is so wonderful. Friendship like this is a great gift!
“you made a fetish of me and wear it around your neck
I keep your calipso dance beneath my iron bed”
These lines give me magic… thank you as always for writing!
I just really enjoyed this poem. I can feel their unbreakable bond and devotion. Well written!
Gorgeous!
Beautiful, gentle, so special to be and have such a friend.
An absolutely beautiful poem, and these exquisite words set a perfect aura for your verse.
“I hear your rustling words like music
Taste feelings like rain on my tongue”
Thank you dearest lunar 💓 friends are a rare lifelong blessing
You’ve just described my bestie and I! Now I must go share it with her! Just beautiful, thank you. 🙂
Just a beautiful poem on connection. I love the image of muddy footprints on the carpet. Wonderful writing as always. ❤
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TheFeatheredSleep – A friendship
Very direct, beautiful and touching work.
Exceptionally beautiful…and pure. So well done!
Yes!! ❤
Beautiful, Candice!
Am so in love with this. You are an amazing writer and the deep love you express in this piece, I felt it. Bravo!
Love it. favorite lines:
You made a fetish of me and wear it around your neck
I keep your calipso dance beneath my iron bed
and the last three lines. I’m thinking if you sang you would be bigger than Sarah Mclaughlan.
Lovely 🙂
I want a friendship like that
I love your poetry when it’s delicate and tender like this.
The sort of connection you’d described here is one that a lot of us long for in our lives, but, NOT many are able to, find it…
Of the various excellent images here, I like the muddy footprints on the plain carpet best
I do not know why this piece made me cry so much. I can barely see the screen Candice. You are one of the few writers that touch my soul in so many levels when i read your RAW EMOTIONS. Thank you for what you do to me.
You know I completely adore you, right?
How did I know? 😉
Mutuality?
There are times when I wish, oh how I wish, I could exchange skins 🙂
When a friendship is at its best…. Beautiful to read this, Candice.
awwww ty. same here and I need to remember to read your poetry more often to get through my misery and tedium.
What waters run down mountainsides, to fill the void between souls …
Just perfect Candice 🖤
I love it when you read my poetry. I was just going through C’s amazing poetry book for her, and I re-read the ones you guys did together, they were some of the best, she’s awesome, but the two of you are equally incredible together, you write so well together compared to most people who really do better writing on their own. You should write another poem together. Anyway it got me thinking about you and how I loved your writing and then I saw you had paid a visit to my site and I was so happy 🙂
Yeah we really should! We do write very well together, it’s a very rewarding experience. She’s wonderful. LoL Candice, I absolutely love your work. I try not to miss a single poem. I’m happy I made U happy 😁❤️
Haha well missy I do believe your words are more than beautiful
Ditto my lovely friend
Wow that’s a lovely thing to say and it means a great deal coming from you. I really love your work with C too and it’s not often that collaborative work ‘works’ in my humble estimate but you guys really rock it. You did make me happy my friend
Outstanding!
So beautiful my dear friend. love love
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