Of Rose Buds

[charisstoma]

Title: Of Rose Buds
Author: charisstoma
Word count: 271
*snickers* Sunday Snuggle?

* A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns http://www.worldburnsclub.com/poems/translations/a_red_red_rose.htm



He looked down at the flower he held between fingers and thumb. So beautiful a deep pink was the bud, blushing from base to tip. Perfection, he thought breathing in its scent, touching and drawing its smooth velvet over the sensitive skin of his face and down to stroke back and forth across his lips. Warm sweet perfection.

The day had been hot and his love lay upon the sheets splayed exhausted, the romantic flickering of candle light highlighting his naked form. Yes, perfection, and he drew the furled petals over vulnerable skin watching it blush even as the bud, rose to rose pink.

“O, my luve's like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June.
O, my luve's like the melodie,
That's sweetly play'd in tune.*” he quoted.

He stopped and grinned, “well, perhaps not red red, least wise not yet, but the night is young.”

His lover’s eyes smoldered tiredly, “You’re going to try killing me with sex, aren’t you?”

“ERIK. If you can’t tell romantic love making from plain sex, I’m not doing it right. I’m spouting poetry while clasping a rose here.”

“I know love and you’re doing very well but I’ll be more interested in that rose bud of yours when I’ve recovered a bit. Then we’ll see about the romantic using of your blossom. In the mean time, kisses I hear have greater restorative powers,” he grinned wickedly tracing a finger pad over John’s lips, “your rose bud to mine.”
“It’s my turn next,” he whispered against John’s neck nipping lightly and dragged him down into position for the beginning of those reinvigorating kisses.

Comments

[magistra17sum.livejournal.com]

I love this. ^_^

[theotherdibbler.livejournal.com]

I love your icon, that's brilliant. XD

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Thank you I'm glad you liked. It's always struck me the similarity in texture and to some degree firmness between rose buds and *coughs* a body part males possess.

[frogs_of_war]

Don't tell me that! Squeezing roses lightly is a good way to tell how old they are/how long they'll last. (An old rose, even one that never bloomed is empty in the center, while a new rose is solid all the way through.) I better not have such thoughts the next time a customer asks me to pick roses for them.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

I am giggling very hard here. Have you looked at the packaging on men's underwear? I worked in the men's dept off and on. One is not supposed to drool or pet the merchandise.

[theotherdibbler.livejournal.com]

Hee! Cute, loving and sexy, all in one. ♥

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Use of euphemisms, poetry, and flower for the win. *grins*

[clodiametelli.livejournal.com]

I like the contrast between the poetic delicacy of the first half of the story with the more earthy romanticism of the second.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

You always make the most wonderful comments. Thank you. Yes, contrasts and euphemisms. Ah but is it Sunday Snuggle?

[clodiametelli.livejournal.com]

Why not? It's romantic and poetic - and non-explicit as long as one doesn't think too hard about the rosebuds or of loves becoming progressively redder throughout the evening....

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

*Snickers* Thank you. Just what I was trying for.

[mee-eep.livejournal.com]

LOL very sneaky; lovely and poetic on the surface then deeper down below.

Why not a snuggle, it's about flower appreciation, isn't it? *snicker*

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

You liked *grins* It looks very nice with the Snuggle site background too.

Sneaky? Me?
First it's lower then it's deeper and then it's an up and down affair. *thinks and nods* Yeah, that's what it is.

You can not tell that I am procrastinating. I've got a start on the next demon story but it's fighting and wanting to be better and longer than every other one. *sighs* It's not going to be if it doesn't get over the 500 word mark though is it *looks at it frowning*

[mee-eep.livejournal.com]

*snicker* very sneaky, very good.

Yes I see this, demons do so like to be proved longer than better than all the others ;)

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

It feels like it wants to be epic possibly with 2 claimings by 2 separate demons of 2 different consorts.
So why can't I get prey 1 to talk to me, *snickers* possibly because he's a journalist and wants to ask all the questions.

[mee-eep.livejournal.com]

Have two demons ever claimed the same consort?
Would have to happen instantaniously I guess or mid quarrel.

a journalist? ;) hehe

[theskimblishone.livejournal.com]

Hah. I really like the dialogue here - it feels like a lovely, natural response to that kind of romanticism. Very amusing.

Oh, all the potential punning oportunities with 'rose bud', but I actually like that you've never made it explicit.

Also, the line where you're having the rosebud dragged across the lover's skin is very vivid and suggestive - I can really feel it in my mind's eye.