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I Kissed You with Sparrows

Serkan Engin

I Kissed You with Sparrows by Serkan Engin / digital collage by D Raphael
image credit: em

We are kissing each other on the lips
while hitting Love and wobbling around
only the walls are barricade to our lust.
Your mouth is beginning with a damp alphabet
a red butterfly settled on your face.

Look dear, sparrows are flapping in my rib cage
I kissed you with sparrows from the thin places of your dreams.

Your breasts are two bunches of daisy
suddenly blooming through the sky of my mouth.
Then your breasts are a pensive river
flowing into the sea of my mouth.
I draw the purple map of lust on your skin by my mouth.

Look dear, sparrows are flapping in my rib cage
I kissed you with sparrows from the thin places of your dreams.

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Serkan Engin

A socialist Laz poet-author from Turkey, Serkan Engin was born in 1975 in Izmit, Turkey.

His poems and articles on poetry theory have been published in English in The Tower Journal, Poetry'z Own, Belleville Park Pages, Far Enough East, Spilt Infinitive Lit Magazine, Empty Mirror, The Writer’s Drawer, Poetry Super Highway, Miracle E-zine, Industry Night Lit Magazine, Open Road Review, Shot Glass Journal, Songsoptok, The Criterion and Mediterranean Poetry. Some of his poems appeared in Japanese in the leading Japanese philosophy and poetry journal Shi to Shisou.

His political articles have been published in many countries, including USA, Greece, Sweden, India, Armenia, France, and Indonesia.

Author: Serkan Engin Tags: poetry Category: Poetry September 30, 2013

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