Poetry by Adrian Ernesto Cepeda

Mon Amor
From a 1959 photograph of Emmanuelle Riva

You deserve someone
nakedly loyal like
a submissive lover
who listens
to your softest seductions
and immediately craves
the hunger of your fiery
tongue. Someone who
trembles with just

the idea of losing
the match that yearns
the most hypnotic flame
inside you. Even thinking
of you reawakening arms
reaching out first thing with
morning giggles, wanting
you bed hair, no make-up

always uncovering blushes
reigniting your smokiest
fire between your thighs
without even asking,
someone who submits
like an eager poem, and
someone who loves to present
you the time to spotlight and
bloom—as you enchantingly

rhyme, vibrations alone.




Symbiosis
From the 2012 photograph by Rick Garrett


Is this how love feels
like? he asks leaning
in lips ready to kiss me
again. I try not to look
up, my head on his chest
not wanting to confess,
instead I teasingly stir,
pondering the fate of two
bodies becoming physically
connected no longer alien
after first contact, linked
together by the spark
of longing to retaste desire.
To reignite that fire again
and again, not thinking
in dates of expiration,
as his lips touch mine,
sometimes as our tongues
unite again, savoring each
other, I don’t know where
he ends, and I begin— instantly
our most intimate greeting
becoming one giant mass,
a bonfire flesh flame that
might incinerate us, why
are we so combustible
from within? But we love
reigniting to feel the naked
rekindling touch taking us
over, rippling climactic torches
simmering grins from the match
that reappears engulfing
us again as our heat blazes
closer and closer inside,
outside, somehow between
our smoldering intensity
I came to love how softly
he mouths my name.  ​



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​Adrian Ernesto Cepeda is the author of the full-length poetry collection Flashes & Verses… Becoming Attractions from Unsolicited Press and the poetry chapbook So Many Flowers, So Little Time from Red Mare Press.
His poetry has been featured in The Yellow Chair Review, Burning House Press, Frontier Poetry, poeticdiversity, The Wild Word, Rigorous, Tin Lunchbox Review, Rogue Agent Journal, Chanterelle’s Notebook, The Fem, Rigorous, Palette Poetry, San Diego Reader and Lunch Ticket’s Special Issue: Celebrating 20 Years of Antioch University Los Angeles MFA in Creative Writing.
One of his poems was named the winner of Subterranean Blue Poetry’s 2016 "The Children of Orpheus" Anthology Contest and two of his poems “Buzz Me” and “Estranged Fruit” were nominated for Best of the Net in 2015 and 2016.
Adrian is an LA Poet who has a BA from the University of Texas at San Antonio and he is also a graduate of the MFA program at Antioch University in Los Angeles where he lives with his wife and their cat Woody Gold. You can connect with Adrian on his website: http://www.adrianernestocepeda.com/