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Your voice

Your smooth voice
spreads over me like the sound of claves banged on wood
Your sweet voice
carresses my skin like foam left at the bottom of the jar
Your crystal voice
undresses me, removes my clothes like a drizzle falling quietly
Your intense voice
wakes my hands like a long silence broken in the early hours
Your warm voice
soothes my cries when my demons prowl the corridor of my nights
Your wise voice
perfumes my hips like a lost seashell wandering
into an avalanche
Your Bohemian voice
Bohemia is mine1, beautiful and sensual, beautiful and cruel, it lends me wings
Your low voice
permeates my senses like the grease on the pages of a childhood book.
 
I escape
to some place else when you lovingly2 let out your sweet whispers
Loving words, casual words3
Some place else
there is my breath, your lips, my heart and your warmth
Some place else there is your voice
(sensual, feline, naughty)
 
Your smooth voice
spoils my bouts of anger as I want you to be proud while you crawl in servility
Your voice grinds
and makes my flesh crawl as I soar and want you to be hard as stone
Your sensible voice
at daybreak, my tender love, my sweet kitten, makes you odious
Your frail voice
knits my brow when your words are honey while I wanted them hostile
 
I escape
to some place else when you lovingly let out your sweet whispers
Loving words, casual words
Some place else
there is my breath, your lips, my heart and your warmth
Some place else there is your voice
(sensual, feline, naughty)
 
Your sharp
and long voice insinuates itself along my tragedies in the cusp of my tears' quiet
Your tall
and beautiful voice asks me to love this story the day lays down on our memories
Your delicate voice
sets the tone4 of my cantatas, of your sonatas as I set down to earth
Your slow voice
spells out my name so that each letter shivers to the sound of your whole being
 
I escape
to some place else when you lovingly let out your sweet whispers
Loving words, casual words
Some place else
there is my breath, your lips, my heart and your warmth
Some place else there is your voice
 
  • 1. Just there for the assonance
  • 2. a pun on "en choeur" ("as a choir" -> in unison), meaning something like "in a loving mood"
  • 3. an obvious wink to Edith Piaf
  • 4. a pun on "sonner le glas" (sound the death knell)
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Ta voix

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GavinGavin
   Tue, 17/10/2017 - 13:00

Just some minor nitpicking... :)

Cristal - Crystal in English - Unless we're talking about champagne! ;)
cries - plural cry - cries
Your sensible voice....makeS (conjugate with "voice")

GavinGavin
   Tue, 17/10/2017 - 19:54

It is - just had a proper listen...charming voice :-)