Mango Butterflies Poem by Marcus McKinley

Mango Butterflies

Rating: 5.0


It is in your actions, your words
Your backwards glance
In the moments of chance it manifests
Deep within a heaving breast, a sigh
dilating iris’ of the eye
a subtle arch of your lower back
a firmness rounding every thread
In heels tensing curving calves
Treading paths of silk, unsaid
One by one each step endured
Tacitly, your intensions heard
Helpless I transform, a vassal
Lured, my soul is not my own
Enticed, entranced, involved, in love
These feelings newly felt, unknown

In your absence, devoid of home
These feelings only just, unknown
silent, effortless, absent of touch
the pain unbearable, will I survive
to taste your lips and eat your words
and turn your curves in silky tango
exhaling moments deep, into your eyes
you're sweet… as mango butterflies
you're sweet as……

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Claudia Krizay 09 September 2013

A beautiful poem, Marcus-look forward to reading more of your work. Thanks for sharing- Claudia

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Bri Edwards 09 September 2013

this is more complicated than some poems for me to quickly comment on as much as i feel i should. especially since you asked that i read it and your bio requests feedback. so i'll just say now that it is catchy. it has a pleasant flow to it (slowed a bit by my trying to follow the meaning at times) . i like the internal rhymes i think i found. in the last two lines, did you mean your or you're? thanks for sharing. i'll try to get back to it someday after my fun outdoors. been at computer too longgggggggggggg. :)

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Poetheart Morgan 09 September 2013

The title is fantastic and the poem take us to a sweetness unbearable. We see the intense desire hidden in each stanza. Very sensual poem! ! ! ! I loved it! ! ! !

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Rekha Mandagere 09 September 2013

It is beautiful. Emotions are fine and delicately woven. You made a nice art work: -)

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Yasmin Khan 09 September 2013

it's written passionately in a nice flow.

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T T 29 November 2016

really nice descriptive words....really paints a picture in the mind :)

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Troy Ulysses Davis 28 September 2013

Romantic. Good piece.

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Vipins Puthooran 22 September 2013

extreme emotions ///// a very beautiful poem to read! ! ! ! ! !

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S.zaynab Kamoonpuri 20 September 2013

Wow marvelous expressions of passion, frm d dilating iris to tango, i say u did a superb job of it in poem! Pls do review my latest too, on Nature.

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Kaila George 16 September 2013

This is so beautiful in its whole form from the first stanza all the through to the last line leaving me to want to read more...well written excellent penmenship

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