First Kiss
By Thomas Broadway Cox
Given not stolen
Welcome not undue
Eyes closed, lips ally
Accept the gift
Honor the giver
The flavor lingers
A first taste
Of a banquet earned
Nothing tastes better
Than love.
Thomas Broadway Cox washed ashore at West Chop at age 11. After many years of splitting time between Harvard Square and Martha’s Vineyard, he now resides full-time in Vineyard Haven. He has always found writing creatively in different genres to be a necessary artistic outlet.
Poets with a connection to Martha’s Vineyard are encouraged to submit poems to Laura Roosevelt at ldroosevelt@gmail.com.