Selected Poetry by Brenda Mox

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SMALL RED SUN

Black, no questioning eyes hid in his skin

of fake vulnerability, where fears and adorations

lived united in their differences,

thriving somewhere in the middle.

Though his charismatic stubbornness,

often doctored with curses,

set auras of ice particles swirling,

he was skilled in gauging her emotions

better than most.

Speaking softly, with false trepidation,

his ability to move within her mind

set off a low rumble of conversation

that hung in the air between them

and scorched her thoughts

like a small red sun.

With no father map to guide her

through the dark colored glass of male charms,

she was blinded to his furious cloud of anger

that would strike with the swiftness

of a tiger’s leap.

Yet her shy dancing eyes,

so desperate for the fun of youth,

felt at home in his voice.

Even if truth did not live there.

RIBALD ADVICE

With a voice turned husky,

a smile that spelled trouble

and eyes of fiery depth,

the lusty old cougar,

(whose logic was vacationing

just out of reach)

offered her ribald advice.

Holding his mouth

in a neutral line

emotions tucked

just out of sight,

he tried to appear

unmoved

by the lusty smells

surrounding her,

though fearing to waver

then succumb

to her startling bizarre,

yet attractive smile.

On the verge of

bursting out his skin

from a confusing polarity

of desires,

his heart skittered

through several beats.

As the dark and daring

magnetism between them

trembled down to

his toes.

his blood seemed suddenly

to stop flowing.

With a voice

naughty to perfection,

she flashed a lethal,

pirate smile

and winked her

taunting spark,

as a bell rang

and she called

the class to order.

Brenda Mox is a poet and visual artist living on the shore at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia.   She graduated MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Old Dominion University many moons ago.   She has one son, 2 grandsons and 2 great grandsons.   Her work has been published in Wingless Dreamer,  Bewildering Stories,  Down in the Dirt,  Ariel Chart,  Blaze Vox,  Neo Poet,  Edge of Humanity,  Academy of Heart and Mind,  Corporeal,  Discretionary Love, BarBar,  Poetry for Mental Health,  The Amazine,  Basilisk Tree journals,  Eber Wein and Eastern Sea Bard Anthologies.