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# Rivers of Passion
- URL: https://www.vesperapress.com/rivers-of-passion/
- Published: 2015-11-12T13:23:40.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-06T21:48:13.000Z
- Author: Meri McGuire McConn
- Tags: #Poetry, #Love and Romance, #Longing and Desire, #26

Yes, I do have a mind -   
but I have a body, too  
and I deserve to be touched  
to be worshipped  
to be admired  
to be adored  
as any cloud  
as any storm  
as any flower  
as any fruit:

I deserve to have my hand plucked from my side, where it rests  
like a flower, casually plucked from the ground  
and kissed, the tender flesh of my hand as gentle  
as any flower’s silken petals that may brush your nose  
  
I deserve to have a river’s run of caresses up the length of my arm  
my taut muscles like a riverbed of polished rocks  
yearn for the fluid motions of your heart in action  
for the flickering motion of lips like fishes swimming in a stream  
  
I deserve a steady trickle of fingers slipping up my thighs  
my body a heaving river fed by your ever-increasing streams  
spilling helplessly over and over again