Caution: Suggestive content
I shut my eyes and wait till you draw near,
My senses vie for auras you’ll dispense;
I do not feel for pulse or strain to hear,
Your first trace comes, as always, from a scent.Just now an almond air breathes to my face
With trace of mace and aloe tint discrete;
Your glow is garnished ginger interlaced
With atoms from pomanders tart and sweet.
Then musky lust intoxicates like mead,
Your cayenne bite spurs urges to the breach;
Wild spikenard ushers pestled cumin seed
That bathes the tender nub on cloven peach.
I lick the sweat that sheens your cinnamon skin
This tactile taste supplants the scents within.
Fugitive Fragments 
This is a wildcard entry to your wonderful world of poesy mike…spice makes for a heady cocktail of scents , tastes and spirits that takes the reader on a trip to you know where… Let the brew keep flowing…all the best…
Many thanks for your interpretative and positive acknowledgement Rajagopal
Intense and sensual. I love it!
Lots of love
I’m very much the novice on this theme Patty so your kind words are encouraging – much thanks.
Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot.
That’s cool – thank you (;
Love it!
Thanks for thumbs up douryeh.
very sensual indeed. well done
That was a bit of an experiment nl but I was pleased enough with it to test it on all you guys – many thanks for this confirmation.
Heady and intense. Like synesthesia. When the novel and consequent movie Perfume came out, people always referred to it as “writing the unwriteable” and “filming the unfilmable”, if the whole story revolves on assembling the “perfect fragrance”. Well. You have also written the unwriteable here. I was captured by my own memories triggered by the scents. And of course, the rhythm and rhyme was sublime. 🙂
Wow. Your interpretation has succeeded in penetrating to a level that even this poet didn’t consider. Had I seen the theme as you have deemed it I probably would have dumped it in the ‘too hard’ basket at the outset! This is a heady compliment Iris and I thank you sincerely.
Always welcome. 🙂 It’s always a pleasure reading you.
Oh my… I think I pierced my lip on a cumin seed! Wow Mike… That was sublimely scentsual!
Yours is an opinion that I’m very glad to have Megan as this is me losing my virginity in the genre of erotic poetry. Your own work played no small part in tempting me to try it (you’re the sort of girl my mother told me not to hang with and here’s the proof). So my special thanks to you for this validation MK.
I am so pleased you didn’t listen to your mother… I do enjoy the thought of having sparked your erotic cherry pop… It reads sublimely… Please, don’t stop there…
spicey in a most sensual display of colors in one’s mind as we( I) drift through
the energy…
spice of life is very nice!
I like this …!
Take Care You Matter…
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maryrose
Your evaluation has permeated the layers of my poem maryrose and I greatly appreciate your doing so. My thanks.
Your gift with words evoke visualizations imbued with sensual prowess….very powerful…intoxicating is the word I shall chose to sum up! That and I shall never…ever think of spices the same again…
An extraordinarily generous comment from someone whose gastronomic enjoyment I may have destroyed for life. I graciously thank you Christina.
‘Tis a most intoxicating brew indeed!
I hope you don’t mind, but I shared this poem with a group called ‘Sexxxuelle Poetry’ on Google Plus, with the following caption:
‘This should set your senses on fire,
a pungent poem by Michael McGuire…’
I’m flattered by both your comment and your onward endorsement and thank you sincerely.
This sets all my senses on fire.. amazing balance of spices and eroticism. EXCELLENT 🙂
You set my pride aflame – so pleased you liked the mixture and thank you for saying so.
You are very welcome Mr Spicemiester 😉
I came to thank you for reading my piece when.
I stayed in admiration of the versatility of most enjoyable and grandest rascal met in recent encounters.
‘Versatile’ is very kind of you (‘Eccentric’ was recently suggested to me!). Glad you enjoyed – as I did reading some of your work.
You have a flair it’s fun to go on the ride. ( simple translation you’re welcome.)
A sonnet demonstrating perfection in olfaction (our olfactory cells are fast at regenerating – keeping those memories so intensely yet elusively alive).
The redolence of your sweet comment is savored but I am incensed at your allowing the essence of the subject to evaporate – it just doesn’t cut the mustard (:
Well, such a tart response will keep my tasting notes sharp in future! (The sensual synesthetics were not wasted on me) 😉
Ok. I’m a tart.
…of the sweetest kind.
Great sensual post. Really created a vivid feeling.
So glad it worked for you Mark – many thanks.
A beautiful melding of the senses.
Thanks b.l. I’m pleased that you ‘got it’.
I don’t think the word “Spicy” has ever suited an erotic poem as well as this one. Well done!
A terrific compliment joe . Makes me feel less of a, ahem, dill, in trying this category of poetry.
Mike,
Your choice to try this category was an excellent one.You have a natural talent. I love poetry. This and many of your other poems are exquisite.
This is the second time this poem has caused me to blush. Thanks again.
Your choice of using taste,smells and scents with this poem is outstanding. Like making a recipe all the flavors build and play of each other to make one taste .with hints of others.With true intimacy and or love.It takes building off each others,tastes,loves,little things that merge together to make one.Beautiful
Your perspicuous critique strikes the very heart of the matter aerobabe and I am very grateful for your appreciation and time.
Spicy! Now I’m hungry 😛
Maccas or Macca?
is it hot in here? Nicely done, Mike.
This very welcome authentication validates my decision to attempt this genre; much relieved Holly and thank you.
Very fine writing!
Delicious and sensual … yum
A compliment and a pun for good measure! Gratefully accepted with thanks Vera.
Excellent poem!
It totally captures the sensation one feels when one captures the alluring scent of some women.
Not ‘some’ – one 😀
Thank you for your appreciative assessment DVH – I’m pleased that you saw straight to its core.