Sunday Musings, featuring Cherie Sumner's poem titled " Flickering Afterglow ", appreciated by Williamsji Maveli

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Sunday Musings:  For Sunday, 01st February, 2015  By Williamsji Maveli  My Sunday Greetings to COSMOFUNNEL Administration, to all authors, artistes and viewers

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SYNOPSIS: This is my weekend writing column for a review of a poem from a selected author. This Column is being titled as "Sunday Musings " with a view to feature an in-depth analysis of  any one of the poems from the previous weeks postings, selected by me at random to avoid the elaborate review or comment postings  by me in the usual comments column. Poetess Cherie Sumner's   almost all poems are great success, and have won much appreciations and comments from COSMO viewers.  Hence it was very difficult to choose the best one for my review. However, I shall plan this column in such a way to accommodate almost all style of poems by all poets and poetess of COSMOFUNNEL, which I hope will give more room for encouragement and inspirations to write. The poems selected are purely from my own liking and discretion and has nothing to do with the ratings, voting and favorite aspects. Hope, readers will understand my view point and enjoy my writing. My views and interpretations in this column are purely my own observations, and it has nothing to do with the personal life of the author of the poem. I am eager to read your feed-backs.  The poem which  I have taken-up for this Sunday Musings is Poetess Cherie Sumner's  verse titled  " Flickering Afterglow  "

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• Flickering Afterglow
• By Poetess Cherie Sumner

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You look so peaceful,
Yet tempting in your sleep
Oh!  What reminiscing thoughts
Of our passion I keep!
Oftentimes, I awake
Several times just to check

(Temptation to love is a part of life. People are tempted to engage in actions that are good, bad of ugly.)

To feel you there, to run my hand
Along the curve of your neck
I study how well you fill out
Your sexy boxer brief underwear
It’s my reaffirming reminder
That recently, I was melded there

(Self-control entails facing down these temptations and picking the better, more moral or less harmful option, even if it is often unappealing at that moment)

I get cravings to taste you
Give succulent kisses down below
To start another fire that will
Wake you, hard, ready to go
It is just an illusion - these sensual thoughts
You will never know
I will lie here with voracious yearning
In flickering afterglow

(We may think of self-control as something that some people have and some people do not, this is actually an inaccurate depiction)

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BETWEEN THE LINES

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Self-control is a scarce resource that can be depleted and refilled over time. So any given individual can have moments in which his or her ability to exert self-control is depleted, leaving the person vulnerable to caving to temptation.There is much difference between desire and craving. We all desire things.Sometimes we crave them too. The difference between desire and craving is subtle,but true. Desire is an expression of longing. Craving is an expression of neediness.Merriment in the delight of desire is spectacular. It is a teasing, a delicious yearning for something just out of reach, but with the promise of its fulfillment. A craving is an insatiable hunger that can never really be stilled. When we rest in our own awareness, we experience desire. When we place our power outside of ourselves, it turns into a craving, that toxic place in which we lose touch with our own reality. We imagine things that are not real. We create ghosts that tell us what we want to hear, but they are only apparitions of our own making. We have all experienced disappointments in life when we truly thought something to be real, only to find out it was a mirage. Our minds played tricks on our hearts and what we thought to be desire wasn't that at all. When we remain in consciousness, we can elevate our thinking, our well being, our pleasure, our sorrows, our everything. We can liberate ourselves from the falsehoods of our cravings when we are truly honest with ourselves.Honesty opens the door to our inner truth, in which we become one with ourselves. From there we can meld with the Higher Power that exists within each of us. Only then can we become aware of our infinite connection with each other.And with that awareness, we are set free -- free to desire, free to dance, free to be who we truly are. Allow life to seduce you to that place of desire. In that space between the promise and its fruition, you, and everything you've ever wished for, will be born.

Dear Poetess Cherie Sumner, please accept my congrats for sharing the above verse with us, Awaiting more amazing verses from your golden pen,

Regards & Love

WILLIAMSJI MAVELI

NOTE:

I am adding the Malayalam translation of Cherie Sumner's poem (For viewers info only)

നിങ്ങൾ അങ്ങനെ സമാധാനപരമായ നോക്കി
എങ്കിലും പരീക്ഷിച്ചു നിങ്ങളുടെ ഉറക്കത്തിൽ
ഓ!  എന്തു പറ്റില്ല ചിന്തകൾ
ഞങ്ങളുടെ അഭിനിവേശം ഞാൻ കുടുങ്ങി!
ഭാവിച്ചു ഞാൻ ഉണരുമ്പോൾ
നിരവധി തവണ മാത്രം പരിശോധിക്കാൻ
അവിടെ നിങ്ങൾ തോന്നി എന്റെ കൈ പ്രവർത്തിപ്പിക്കാൻ
നിന്റെ കഴുത്തിലെ രശ്മികളുടെ വളരുന്നു
ഞാൻ നിങ്ങളെ പൂരിപ്പിക്കുക എത്ര നന്നായി പഠിക്കണം
നിങ്ങളുടെ സെക്സി ബോക്സിംഗ് ഹ്രസ്വമായ അടിവസ്ത്രം
അതു എന്റെ തൂവലുള്ള ഓർമ്മപ്പെടുത്തൽ തുടർന്ന്
ഈയിടെ, ഞാൻ അവിടെ melded ചെയ്തു
ഞാൻ കൊതിക്കു നിങ്ങളെ ആസ്വദിപ്പിക്കുക നേടുകയും
താഴെ ചണം ചുംബനങ്ങൾ ഇറങ്ങി കൊടുക്കും
ആ മറ്റൊരു തീ ആരംഭിക്കാൻ
തയ്യാറാണ്, ഹാർഡ്, നിങ്ങൾ Wake
ഈ പ്രാകൃതവും ചിന്തകൾ - ഇത് ഒരു മലയാളി
നിങ്ങൾക്ക് ഒരിക്കലും അറിയാൻ കഴിയില്ല
ഞാൻ ഉത്സുകനായ ശുഷ് ഇവിടെ കിടക്കും
Afterglow അതെന്ന് ൽ