Tattoo

Tattoo

The heat from your tattoo

remains invisible,

glowing

and runs down your neck.

I open your skin

and roll them out both way,

gently,

as I promised.

The orange of the inside,

fluid,

moves its stillness;

heads towards your finger’s tip

where it will be porous

and burn the city on my nail.

I still keep touching yours

waiting for the artist to sketch us

on a dome inside the godliness.

©All Rights Are Reserved By Kushal Poddar, 2011 (written on 7^th September,2011)

Comments: 39

JustMe ~I'm happy to be~ Sep 9, 2011, 9:30pm UTC

Totally provocative!

Robert - just a simple man - B. Apr 19, 2012, 10:05pm UTC

100%, totally.

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Kushal Poddar Sep 9, 2011, 9:34pm UTC

:)
How are you, Mi

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Darin Waugh Sep 9, 2011, 9:50pm UTC

Nice!

Kushal Poddar Sep 11, 2011, 9:43pm UTC

Thank you

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Audrey Howitt Sep 9, 2011, 10:21pm UTC

Really wonderful imagery and mood here. Well done!

Kushal Poddar Sep 11, 2011, 9:43pm UTC

Thank you, Audrey

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Priya P. Sep 9, 2011, 11:15pm UTC

Very vivid in detail, so many ways for an eye to visualize or paint a picture.

Kushal Poddar Sep 11, 2011, 9:44pm UTC

Thank you, Priya

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Len Maxwell Sep 9, 2011, 11:22pm UTC

I have to agree with Priya. Nicely done.

Thank you for sharing with The Triple Name Club.

Kushal Poddar Sep 11, 2011, 9:45pm UTC

Thank you, Len

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David W. Sep 9, 2011, 11:50pm UTC

So much insight in so few words, bravo!

Kushal Poddar Sep 11, 2011, 9:45pm UTC

Thank you, David

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stephen berwaldt Sep 10, 2011, 12:59am UTC

There you do again...leaving us in your dust...scratching our heads...wondering where that train came from...
but your thoughts are beautiful...

Thank you submitting to the Gatherâ€™s Best Writers and Artists.

Kushal Poddar Sep 11, 2011, 9:45pm UTC

Thank you, Stephen

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Granny Janny Sep 10, 2011, 2:57am UTC

I don't get the line "and roll them out both way"
Can you illuminate me?

Kushal Poddar Sep 11, 2011, 9:55pm UTC

Granny, I imagined rolling out the skin like a square box tin foil.

Granny Janny Sep 13, 2011, 1:40am UTC

Love your imagination dear One.

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Bernard C. Sep 10, 2011, 5:54am UTC

Quite some transformation taking place - tattoo's sure changing a person whether seen or unseen - nicely written - thanks for sharing :-)

Thanks for submitting to
The Surreal Circus.

Kushal Poddar Sep 11, 2011, 9:53pm UTC

Thank you, Bernard

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Stirling D. Sep 10, 2011, 9:26am UTC

Absolutely gorgeous! Another great poem, Kushal.

Kushal Poddar Sep 11, 2011, 9:52pm UTC

Thank you, Stirling

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Ann Marcaida Sep 10, 2011, 3:26pm UTC

I read the tattoo as representing kundalini, the life force that can travel up the spine. I can imagine the narrator "opening up" his partner's life energy and mingling it with his.

Now featured at The Surreal Circus.

Kushal Poddar Sep 11, 2011, 9:51pm UTC

Thank you, Ann.
An Honor

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Peter Joseph Swanson Sep 10, 2011, 3:32pm UTC

Wonderful!!!!!

Kushal Poddar Sep 11, 2011, 9:50pm UTC

Thank you, Peter

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Angela A. Sep 11, 2011, 12:01am UTC

I really enjoyed reading this

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Kushal Poddar Sep 11, 2011, 9:47pm UTC

Thank you

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JOHN BECK Sep 11, 2011, 12:32am UTC

Dormant power, powerfully expressed.

Kushal Poddar Sep 11, 2011, 9:46pm UTC

Thank you, John

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Busy Buzzy Bee 'Gather Proud Mamarazzi' Sep 13, 2011, 12:46pm UTC

beautifully tattooed,Poddar!

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Barbara H. Sep 19, 2011, 12:24pm UTC

...love's tender touch traces the heart and the soul and all opens to the gift with the gift in the sharing... how lucky those who are loved and love.....

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Richard Lynn Livesay Oct 1, 2011, 11:56am UTC

it will burn the city on my nail...the tatoo being an outer symbol, only skin deep,of something much deeper that one must go beneath the exterior to uncover....finding the life fluid, it became part of you and you wished for an artist to memorialize the moment...Grande with feeling sir bard