seraphim bondage

image: artist unknown

an exquisite delight: am'ranth, divine
velvet milk - i taste thine ambrosia flesh -
sparkling, silken seraph, captive of mine,
thine essence, so sacred, my scorch'd lips refresh

seraph! lover! for mine eyes - feast of pearls!
gothic beast am i, melting ebony
shackled, virgin slave, thy beauty unfurls
oh, silver winged stallion, forge me!

plough my glistening fractured stone petals
may i sip of thy throbbing chalice?
seraphim surges! my glass heart settles:
in your silver fire perch'd, trembling malfice

oh manacled seraph, am'ranth, divine
surrender, my darling, captive of mine.

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ABOUT THIS POEM: my first (shakespearian) sonnet. inspired entirely by the image.