The original version of Delicate Thunderstorm, titled Bookend Hearts, has been published in All of Me Vol. VI, courtesy of Shadow Spark Publishing. Featured art is by Android Jones.

Listen to Delicate Thunderstorm by Richard Charles Stevens (Keep Climbing Suite)

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Bookend hearts
Forevermore embrace
Bookend hearts
Forevermore embrace
Bookend hearts
Forevermore embrace
Forevermore embrace

One delicate kiss
The lingering spritz
Of whispering bliss
To my tingling lips
As the sand martins chirrup
My heart turns to syrup
Intermingling amidst the reminisce of harp strings fingered
While the lark and the kingbird
Face windward unhindered
And invert their wingtips
To curtsy the mystics
Concur with one delicate kiss
Reaffirmed by the light which exists

Fingertips to fingertips
Pulsing wrist to wrist
To shift dear liquids clear of thrift
Frontier the continental drift
Then disappear into the mist
To pioneer a brisk airlift
With span of transatlantic swift
And redefine romantic myth

One delicate kiss
The lingering spritz
Of whispering bliss
To my tingling lips
As the sand martins chirrup
My heart turns to syrup
Intermingling amidst the reminisce of harp strings fingered
While the lark and the kingbird
Face windward unhindered
And invert their wingtips
To curtsy the mystics
Curtsy the mystics
Reaffirmed by the light which exists
Curtsy the mystics

Bookend hearts
Forevermore embrace

One delicate kiss
The lingering spritz
Of whispering bliss
To my tingling lips

One delicate kiss
(One delicate kiss)
The lingering spritz
(The lingering spritz)
Of whispering bliss
(Of whispering bliss)
To my tingling lips
(To my tingling lips)

To my tingling lips
To my tingling lips
To my tingling lips

Gliding fair skies realised
By sheer size as they give rise to the twin spires of reprise to sightless scene
Blind eyes with the insight to foresee a theme redeemed from the abiding tide of centuries
Adventurously preened
For every feather of forever tethers readily to breed
Through reverie
Togetherly it heeds
For one delicate kiss
To never cease
Tis no more elegant a wish
Than to proceed

Curtsy the mystics
Curtsy the mystics

Skin to skin
Herein to bleed
To dig in deep and interleave
To mesh the flesh of seed caressed
Abreast of courage then addressed
To see undressed the petals blessed to nourish in unfurl
Bid them flourish as they twirl
And thus encourage gleam of pearl
Encourage gleam of pearl

One delicate kiss
And my lips curl to delight the taste
Resistant to the slightest taint
A vision stained in fine white lace
Sensual
In excess of existential
Charmed of grace
Palm to palm
Forever ornamental
Face to face
Bookend hearts
Forevermore embrace
Bookend hearts
Forevermore embrace

One delicate kiss
The lingering spritz
Of whispering bliss
To my tingling lips

One delicate kiss
The lingering spritz
Of whispering bliss
To my tingling lips

Skin to skin
Herein to bleed
To dig in deep and interleave
To mesh the flesh of seed caressed
Abreast of courage then addressed
To see undressed the petals blessed to nourish in unfurl
Bid them flourish as they twirl
And thus encourage gleam of pearl

When the sky is high
And crowned tides rise
There is a dream at very height of your incline
Lift your hands above your head and dare to touch it
Fly
For the wings were in your soul’s keep
All the while
The wings were in your soul’s keep
All the while

Lift your hands above your head and dare to touch it
Fly
Lift your hands above your head and dare to touch it
Fly
Dare to touch it
Fly
Dare to touch it
Fly

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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