I have walked in the rain with a lover
I have felt her huddled up close to me, beneath the protection of my arm, as we skipped over puddles and sidestepped streams of water rushing down the High Street. I have sheltered beneath shop and restaurant awnings with her as a torrential downpour temporarily flooded the gutters and drains. I have kissed her mouth as separate miniature tributaries beaded and joined on our faces.
I have raced hand in hand with her over a river bridge to find a dry, dripping space beneath shining weeping willows. I have stood looking out to a wild sea with rain mixing with salty spray and our laughter as we shouted our love into it.
I have run with her into the house utterly drenched and joyfully removed each others soaking clothes. Warming one another with the friction of skin on skin.
I have walked in the rain with a lover when the heavens opened above us and it didn’t matter.
Today I walked in the rain.
Alone.
And it just felt miserable, wet and cold.
.
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© the author writing as Romantic Dominant
Photograph stolen from humming girl
I wrote this on Valentine’s Day a year ago. Added audio has helped me justify its reappearance
April
February 10, 2015 at 7:16 pm
Perfect. I have decided that Valntine’s Day is simply an expensive distraction that we participate in so we don’t really have to let ourselves feel the death grip that is the dead of winter. I am done with fool’s gold, or fool’s pink. Red however, I can get on board with. May your Saturday be whatever it is you wish for it to be.
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Romantic Dominant
February 10, 2015 at 10:33 pm
Ah. Invented by the card manufacturers. And yet a day to be romantic just for the sake of it.
I hope yours is red
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April
February 10, 2015 at 11:58 pm
Not sure I believe in romance (when it comes to love) much anymore, it’s too transient and ephemeral. But I am glad that some still do. I think I may just save my “romance” for the art world, written and visual. That seems to be far more eternal these days.
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Romantic Dominant
February 11, 2015 at 8:25 am
Ah … love. I hardly ever use the word. It has lost all currency in the world. But romance – romance for me is intrigue, beauty, sex, desire, intimacy, poetry. Romance is at the heart of so much.
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lesliemeeks
February 10, 2015 at 7:25 pm
Ah.. I remember this one and it’s a joy to hear you recite it. May you joyfully walk in the rain again someday. And may your Valentine’s Day be full of hearts and laughter. Smiles
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Romantic Dominant
February 10, 2015 at 10:33 pm
Smiles. Perhaps to all those things
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lesliemeeks
February 10, 2015 at 10:53 pm
Smiles and enjoy sweet man..
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Nimmi
February 10, 2015 at 7:39 pm
Ah!!! This is just me…
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Romantic Dominant
February 10, 2015 at 10:34 pm
Smiles.
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vilesarianna
February 10, 2015 at 8:16 pm
Beautifully written although you didn’t mention the rainbows that come after the storms. May your rainbows shine bright and lead you to more love.
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Romantic Dominant
February 10, 2015 at 10:34 pm
Ah, yes. The rainbows. Another post …
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georgeforfun
February 10, 2015 at 8:40 pm
Reblogged this on georgeforfun.
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sweetsilverkitten
February 11, 2015 at 12:45 am
I just LOVE the audio! 🙂
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Romantic Dominant
February 11, 2015 at 8:26 am
Smiles. Thank you
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littleannab
February 11, 2015 at 12:52 am
Just beautiful.
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Romantic Dominant
February 11, 2015 at 8:26 am
Thank you. Smiles
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littleannab
February 11, 2015 at 9:49 am
Your so welcome
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Carole
February 12, 2015 at 7:42 am
Ah so wistful…taking me to a moment i never really owned. Beautiful piece.
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Romantic Dominant
February 12, 2015 at 7:53 am
Smiles. I am glad it touched you
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