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charisstoma ([personal profile] charisstoma) wrote2012-06-17 04:14 pm

Of Rose Buds

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.
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[personal profile] frogs_of_war 2012-06-18 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] charisstoma.livejournal.com 2012-06-18 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
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.