By galadrial
Date: 2003 Apr 12
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[[2003.04.12.21.13.15965]]

tussy mussy

Lavish layered in lavender,
love left in lace of grand eloquence
and every shared touch shimmers
with the soft words as batting.

Flowers dried to perfect stasis,
still whiff with want and wonder
and the perfume is redolent
with the musk of time.

You will open the box but rarely,
peel back the wrappings
with the tender of a lover,
and for a moment that scent
will carry you to absent arms,
in one taunt tease of time.

A tussy mussy made of wishes,
a bouquet of secret dreams,
and you will speak her name
only to the latest hour,
when the moon silvers all
even the heart you placed
within the layers of lavender
for memory...



Note:
(A tussy mussy was a small offering of fragrant flowers, more formal than a bouquet...and once the absolute BEST gift to offer a lady who had captured your heart.)