Stronghold

Day 25: 'Begin by reading e e cummings’ poem [somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond]. This is a pretty classic love poem, so well-known that it has spawned at least one silly meme. Today’s prompt challenges you to also write a love poem, one that names at least one flower, contains one parenthetical statement, and in which at least some lines break in unusual places.'

From this place I will never travel willingly;

   I am held here, safely   

Cupped in your strong hands,

   as broad as an embrace.

I never would have dreamed my hands

   (ample, queen-sized) 

Could feel almost dainty like a daisy 

   resting on a sunflower head.

Your solid fingers scarcely fit

   between my own,

Forcing them apart each time we clasp 

   each other tight. 

Yet, oh how delicately you trace 

   my skin with those

Thick fingers, bringing sunshine 

   to my dark spaces. 

Nobody else in all the world 

   that I have met

Holds such exquisite, tender

   power in their hands.  

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