Sonnet 727

(Her answer to the swain of Sonnet 235)

Yes I recall when deep beneath your sheets

My body sparked the tinder of your flame;

How fiery eyes and hearts in fervent beats

Conjoined our lust with neither guilt nor shame.

Enwrapped between my thighs, you dared explore

While heat surged up from every urgent breath—

You plunged into the vent of ardor’s roar

And drank the cries I screamed from passion’s depths.

Then doused in sweat, the blaze began to fade,

We smoldered on, two embers burned and spent

My mouth still seeking, bold and unafraid,

A hungry phoenix, glowing, near ascent.

By love consumed, still ash, no flame to quell;

I bore you through both heaven and sweet hell.

Loubert S Suddaby poems