Two Sentence Tuesday #40

            “I’m not sure what’s real, anymore,” Kara moaned, desperate for something to cling to.

            A familiar kiss had unexpectedly found her beyond the veil of her lament and the voice connected to those lips whispered, “That… was real.” 

Two Sentence Tuesday #15

He never felt like “I love you” came remotely close to capturing the boundless scope of his feelings for her. And yet one enchanted kiss had told her volumes more than those three short words ever could.

First Date

First Date

By Brandon Palzkill

Shimmering starlight twinkles

In your bright sapphire eyes

As we jet down the boulevard

In a Cadillac convertible

Top down, winds blowin’ through our

       hair,

Got your feet up on the dash,

Head tipped back,

Carefree, you beam at me

And I fall in love.

I take you to the House of Blues

Buzzing with electric neon

Red and violet and pink,

Bathing us warmly; slowly

Swaying, grinding

To the gravelly rasp of Tom Waits

Singing through the juke box.

Hold you close; hold you tight,

And you hold your breath,

While you fall in love.

Gray, overflowing clouds roll in,

Thick, glassy raindrops

Pound the asphalt, sizzling; crashing;

Chasing us beneath a park gazebo,

We wait, sitting out the storm;

Your rain-washed flesh sparkles;

I touch you… you shiver.

I taste sweet precipitation

On your lips

As we fall in love.

Life in Technicolor - V

Life in Technicolor – Part V

By Brandon Palzkill

Cherubs raced across the sky

on brilliant shooting stars

and stole the air

from her heaving breast

as her speeding heart

sprinted toward

a joyously abrupt halt.

His fingertips brushed her face

and everything became

real to them;

not some illusion

or mirage,

cast out of blinding despair;

he had truly come back to her

after an eternity

and a day.

“I’ve missed you,” he quavered,

fixing adoring eyes

on his long-lost Aphrodite,

and her tender smile

painted a beautiful Hallmark

greeting card;

a “Welcome Back”

filled with unfaltering love.

He returned her affection

in kind;

she trembled and swooned,

and nearly melted

beneath the violet glow

of intense longing

that shimmered behind his

sparkling eyes;

a sparkle that spoke

a million words.

The silent wanting became

sonorous,

and she couldn’t bear it.

She pulled him into

her warm embrace

and felt their hearts

beating in passionate  

synchronicity

as they shared this first

of physical connections.

The embrace became a kiss,

and no greater kiss

had ever been known.

The longing of eternal months,

spent miles apart,

surged through their

melded lips,

as a spark of lightning,

cast down from the heavens.

Their lips parted

and they were deeply

under each other’s spell.

She made an unspoken offer;

an intimate invitation.  

He accepted  

with an enthralled nod,

and they followed each other off

for a proper reunion.