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Craig Norris
Jun 19, 2009 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

lean to me

I can see us there
sitting on those steps,
smiling in the sun.

You, leaning back between my knees
looking over the wild flowers,
splashing yellow daubing red
growing with abandon,
meant for us.

Unruly as your hair
after a bike ride
or a month of walking.

The gentle acquiescence
as you tip your head forward,
and I work those muscles in your neck
with my thumbs,
the ones on either side
of those rounded mounds beneath your skin,
that line of them.

Lean to me
let me take your weight,
the sun will do the rest.

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Seren

Seren

16 years 10 months ago

This is touching

What a beatiful moment now a treasure to be found in words ... Love Jayne x P.S Yes I edited this comment ... only just noticed I gave four when I thought i pushed five ... sorry ...
weirdelf

weirdelf

16 years 10 months ago

oh!

that line, You, leaning back between my knees really struck me, have not felt that gentle intimacy for a while. You are a more startling poet the more I read. Cheers, Jess
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Craig Norris

16 years 10 months ago

thanks Jess

It's quite a moment to log in and find three comments from three guys, specially you three and on such a tender little note. Really enjoy that, thanks again Cheers . Craig
Rett

Rett

16 years 10 months ago

Craig, beautifully executed

Those little special moments are each in themselves precious and tend to linger in the memory. Well executed. I enjoyed it. Respectfully, Rett: "God made an idiot for practice, then he made a school board." Mark Twain For the sake of children, read this. http://www.neopoet.com/node/19905
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Craig Norris

16 years 10 months ago

so glad you did

Rett, nice to get male response on these tender little poems, it feels quite good, thanks heaps. Cheers. Craig
themoonman

themoonman

16 years 10 months ago

Craig...

Lean to me... something about the title that didn't draw me, not sure what... but when I gave in, because it was yours, I sure was glad... and excellent read there poet! And the title makes total sense... Richard
themoonman

themoonman

16 years 10 months ago

Yes...

but how did you know???? lol... every once in a while my back twists up and I am left in pain until my wife releases her amazing touch... a massage is truly a giving of self that is without question... a tender healing.
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Arthur Tugman

16 years 10 months ago

Neck Rub

Nothing beats a soothing massage.
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Craig Norris

16 years 10 months ago

Cheers Arthur

You're so right, had a moment once after swimming a few laps at the local pool, lying in the sun on the warm concrete. My friend who I was with was a physio, and while I was soaking in the warmth she used her feet on my spine, and performed a number of arcane manipulations which totally released every joint in my body, and a few I didn't know about. She left me there and walked home, when I finally flowed back together and managed to stand up, I had to check to make sure my feet were actually touching the ground. So yes, I am an advocate of the massage. Craig
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orgami

16 years 10 months ago

Beautiful tender poem

Long ago my Shelagh leaned back on a canoe \trip in the night we all were out there to see the Aurora Northern up here North America in summer we still write about that between us I used to have this cute little dark haired woman waitress walk on my back in a bar during the slow days she had the nicest feet and perfect body weight for this She had lots of brothers and they all had her do this too not exactly a normal activity but some people connect in manners a bit different then most Maybe I have this it always put my back in place and Im sure in ancient times this was the way things were done Great Poem you are an amazing poet
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Craig Norris

16 years 10 months ago

that is something

that I have on my list, to take a canoe trip on those lakes of yours. I can't think of anything more magical than being in a canoe on a great lake beneath the stars and the Borealis with ones sweetheart, drifting... Thanks heaps O, love your new pic, seriously cool. Cheers. Craig
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Taniaspoetry

16 years 10 months ago

The sun

The sun will do the rest ... I love the rhythm of this tender poetry as well as what is left unsaid ... the hallmark of good poetry With unruly hair after a walk on a wild seashore, Tania
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Craig Norris

16 years 10 months ago

thank you Tania

I like this, but thought it might be seen as too personal and a bit simple in structure etc. So I'm really happy you like it, thanks again. Love. Craig
Kailashana

Kailashana

16 years 10 months ago

Craig, Craig, Craig.

Craig, Craig, Craig. Bow. ~A "There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic." Anais Nin
Janice Pearce

Janice Pearce

16 years 10 months ago

lean to me

short,intense,and beautiful Craig~ _____________________________________________________ Income-tax forms should be more realistic by allowing the taxpayer to list "Uncle Sam" as a dependent Anonymous