Napowrimo 21

I'm behind again -_- why do these days have to be so busy??

Today's task was to write a kenning poem. I kinda sorta did it and also broke the rules.

You are

You are

Large, the heat-creator,

My day swirls around your needs

Like planets swirl around the sun.

Globe-devourer,

hunger-creator,

earth-rumbler.

You always want more,

Need more,

Morning, noon, and night,

Swallowing pancakes like worlds,

Sandwiches like stars,

Salads like atoms,

Fusing them together,

Energy-begetter.

You are my catch-basin of all,

Of desire, where everything

Ends up, life-nourisher,

A pillow for the head.

You are the life-cradler,

Underneath this skin,

Miracle-generator,

a tiny place where cells

join and leap into being.

You are a truth-knower –

Rising in hope

And sinking in despair,

A gut-wrencher,

A pain-holder,

An everything-swallower,

Spit, food, hopes, sadness

Into your darkness

Into your light.

You are

Always expanding

With my breath,

Always contracting

With my breath.

I suck you in

Hold you in,

You jean-filler,

You button-buster,

You cheek-flusher,

Embarrassment,

Hide you from the world,

You skin-stretcher,

From the times I fed you,

Denied you everything

Because your wailing

Brought me comfort.

You are

The tickle-receiver

The giggle-generator,

Meadow of peach fuzz

And the softest of my skin --

The panza,

The road, the trodden trail,

Portal to another world

Before the world began.