BIOGRAPHY:
CATHY DELALEU has wowed many fans with her lively, sensual poems and short stories. She is a writer, poet and artist, also the author of Wrapping Thoughts Beneath Emotive Rain, a collection of page-turning feast with lyrical themes influenced by her Haitian and American roots. The book reveals her ability to grab the attention of her audience and hold it for the duration. She will tug at your emotions from all levels with infectious individuality. She has several novels in the works: A Summer’s Shadow, is her next work in progress. Her work has been featured twice in Essence Magazine (April and June 2007 issues), Flutter Magazine and Cleansheets. Delaleu is also one of the founders of WriteNow, the writer’s group meet monthly to promote exchange of information, ideas, thoughtful and positive critiques.
Miss Delaleu born in Brooklyn, New York,
spent her early childhood in Haiti and fourteen years in Southern
California. She resides in New York where she works for a life insurance
company. She has read her poetry at various events throughout the city of
New York. Her ultimate goal is to turn her novels into scripts for movies or
plays.
A LOVE CONSCIENCE
Let’s try this
Let’s consolidate the feelings I have for you
Soak them in paper
Dry them with the stars
Get down on your knees
Let them simmer with my kisses
Along with the four seasons
And watch how moans, groans and afterglow of our love
Dance in unison with multicolor
This amalgamation will cling to my fingers
Composing a sweet poem
Let’s do this
Let’s undress and throw our apparel to the wind
I’ll sit naked on your lap
Together we’ll watch how the breeze turns them into a huge kite
Then swallows them whole and burps with a smile
Because we fed him our passion
Let’s not forget this…
This love knows no boundaries
Right here you will find me waiting
Big brown hair
Big eyes
Shimmery lips ready to kiss your sacredness
To give you this love conscience
ISLAND SUNDRESSING
Everything begins today
on the ground
My fairy shoes intrigue nightly mists
35 spring years ago my sea lavender eyes
Etched with silk flowers unraveled
Traveled
Chattered you with delicate kisses
Come and take a glance at
these terra-cotta hips
Skin sweetens with Stoli citrus
Touch my luscious grass
And I will bloom with honey dianthus
My lilac lips give an impression
And loosely you run your fingers
Through my tousled tresses
You call me your princess
You crown me with a tiara made with hydrangea
And we mellow out on a lazy hazy afternoon
Under a sundressing retreat of catechism
You press the play button
Of my answering machine
And listen to all my secret diaries
I give you the hunted look
Grab your balls dipped in condensed Cremasse
Your groans are heard like sugarcane flute in the wind
You thrust like a
mabouya and slide
Plunge graphic tales of Hispaniola
And numb this volcanic moment
Just for a moment I gasp dehydrated air
Gasp your name with sunlicked kisses
Of legs and torso twine
Virtually weightless
While I hang on to you like a hammock
We swing like the texture of the sun
We swing like our life depends on it
© 2006 by Cathy Delaleu