For Outlander author Diana Gabaldon:
.
You
were not
just kissed
by the muse,
Diana, huntress,
goddess of the moon.
You were ravaged.
You were embraced;
your buttocks clutched
and hoisted high,
as the muse impaled you,
roughly pierced your soul,
raised hairs the whole length of you.
Seized by such divine inspiration,
you stretched, back arching,
and received the pulsing
thrusts of
.
w
o
r
d
s
,
w
o
r
d
s
,
w
o
r
d
s.
.
Excruciating
ecstasy
that called forth
rippling quivers,
left you heaving,
complete,
replete,
and pregnant
with story.
.
.
This post began with a random comment made on Diana Gabaldon’s Facebook page yesterday, and here we are! My first erotica! ((blush)) lol
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For those who wondered, yes, Diana has seen this, and I even have a recording of her laughing lustily about it, as we were wrapping up our blue pencil at SIWC 2013. 🙂 Her comment, should you not be able to read the image is, “Wow! That’s a GREAT poem Shawn! I’m truly honoured #mindIusuallyhavetodomoreofthework”
In August 2013 she dedicated her Daily lines to me:
The daily lines in question can be read here:
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rlp46l
And if you’re a fan of Outlander and are now watching the TV series, you may enjoy the poem Dear Sam Heughan from August 2013 when Sam was first cast to play Jamie: Diana has seen this one as well, and coached me through some necessary vocabulary alterations (see notes at the end). 😉
Shawn L. Bird 
oooh, this is a good one!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you really get to the sexual quality of the muse…..
If you know Diana’s work, you can appreciate just how appropriate it is, .
diana the goddess?
Diana Gabaldon the author, who writes at night (goddess of the moon), and hunts plot/character/history with an alarming perspicacity. She is aptly named for the goddess, I think. 😉
[…] on being thoroughly mused. […]
Sweat breaks out at the sight
of thoughts torn and tattered
from the clenched muscle of mind,
substance over form,
releasing juices usually reserved for
private moments of Muses’
fulfillment.
Lecherous muse. 😉
OH! You came back to me so soon!
I swoon. 😉
lol
I am a slut for words! LOL
😉
Amazing! Not only is the imagery vivid and the metaphors strong, but the poem itself has a very interesting shape.
Fantastic job!
Thanks. I contemplated carrying ‘words’ down the page a little longer to stretch out Diana’s arrow, or is it the muse’s ‘arrow’? ((cough)) but finally decided 3 repetitions would do. It may yet get more, but at the moment, 3 it is. 😉
Ah ha! Solution: break ‘words’ into letters on each line! Much more effective! 🙂
Pregnant with story… love it! I’ve been there… and miscarried also.
All you can do is embrace again, and hope for a successful birth!
nice one. love how you have conveyed the soul of the poem visually by arranging the words.
Thanks
Oh, dear. You are very good at poetry! I think you may need to take a break and publish a small collection before more novels. I suspect Diana thoroughly enjoyed this. Applause.
I am planning to put out a chapbook this month, while doing Camp NaNoWriMo. I think it will be called “2011” but we’ll see.
I need to walk away for a moment. My computer monitor just caught aflame.
lol (bows). Then my work here is done.
Thanks for dropping in!
Blazing! darn right you oughta blush! (just kidding–lovely writing–do more)
Will do!
This arrow flies true and hits the mark. Very well done.
Thank you!
Love, love, love your words, words, words 🙂
lol Thanks
Luv this, so passionate! Thanks for visiting Homeflair 🙂
Thank you, and you’re welcome!
I. Am. In. Love! Wow – chills!
Thank you so much for sharing this with me. Glad Diana gave you props. You deserve it!
lol. Thanks. It still makes me giggle. 😉
So glad you linked me to this — I thoroughly, THOROUGHLY, enjoyed it. 🙂
lol