Without peering around to check,
throw off your shoes, your dress,
your jeans, your inhibitions,
toss your underwear anywhere
and join the inviting pool
swirling in hypnotic invitation.
Jump, damnit! Leap from toe-held cliff
into your everything. Let it kiss
your skin and cause goose-bumps
to point the way to your oooh and aweee
because you dared. Simply because
your are bold enough to parade your bareness
at the eye of any beholder,
you will be kissed to a new awakeness
that nothing else can bring you to
by any icy intrusion.
Leap past your faith and far-flung notions
about what is right or decent,
what is good or bad, and be Eve,
or Adam, when being naked knew
no evil to it. Bare and brave it
simply for the freedom of being unbound.
Author notes
I will if you will.
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A contest entry
- Closing in 24hrs OR After 25 Entries!!!! by Celticmoon.
450 points, ended February 1, 2007, 18 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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I love how you have penned this piece. I adore how you used the actual definition of "skinny dipping" with the idea of baring the soul. To be naked both in spirit and in the physical only allow you to complete open yourself on levels most will never even experience in their lifetime. This is in gengius!
Thanks for entering and good luck!
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Thank you, Celticmoon. Only the bare truth gets us where we are really supposed to be going, I think.
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You really ran with the skinny dipping thing. This is adorable.
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Thank you, Cherokee.... I did, indeed I did.
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Nice write here. Makes you feel a little freer. If it weren't 20 below or so i'd don the birthday bathing suit and dip dive in a swim.
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grrrr, polar swimfest time here...and I am not willing nor able. *smile*
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Oh yes, unbound indeed . . . naked in the body and the soul, so that the heart may reverberate in all its hidden beauty.
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Yes, pen-friend, bare-faced, bre-hearted, bare in belief thatwho we are is simply holy enough.
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