Natalie Williams is of Irish descent and was born in Zimbabwe, Africa; currently based in Liverpool, UK.  She has been published in poetry magazines such as 
Poetry Hours, Decanto, and Inclement. She is currently working on two chapbooks and a fictional novel.
 


 

Cover me in latin 
 

Easy lover 
My body cover 
With your sweat in love 
Encase my skin like a glove 
Consume me, and then exhume me 
Petrified with this love lust love 
Cross stitched, got an itch up above 
Stained, pained, tortured twisty 
My eyes are misty 
Wistful 
Theodore, or some such name 
Heart I blame 
Torched and gazing 
All guns blazing 
Scratched and bleeding 
I’m feeding 

Easy lover 
Put me in a corner 
On a wall 
Stretch me into times and future past 
Make this last 
Lengthen me 
Strengthen me 
Place me in a photo frame 
Don’t tell me it’s a game 
I’m feeling your name 
Spelling out the letters 
With each crescendo 
The moments in your eyes 
In your life 
In my cries 

Easy lover 
I’m skinned by you 
And gift wrapped in joy 
Present me to your finest woes 
And I shall curl my toes 
Tie me up in bows 
Let’s not come to blows 
See how this playtime goes 

Easy lover 
Heart of mine 
I’m spent, 
Looking for a vent 
Wish to be touched by you 
Feel so much for you 
Rising inside like a lava experience 
Kiss me at your convenience 

It’s just too long 
I’m losing my strong 
Choosing to tag along 
Coz this don’t feel wrong 
I’m written in lyrical splendor 
And sold to a vendor 
And restored 
Unexplored 
Covered in latin 
Naked me in satin 




Peppermint Defeat
 

Tantalising 
I'm definately fraternizing 
With this sodomy 
Emotional cacophone 
These words seem unwritten 
Or unpromised, or forbidden 
Seems I've ceased and faltered 
Too fettered I've halted 
Truth seems unrecognisable 
The shadows I'm disguiseable 
It just seems so late 
Too late to unbend my fate 
And promises are all broken 
The door's crack left open 
Seems it slipped my mind 
To turn to lock, to key to find 
It seems a merry chase 
Furrows guttered in my face 
Of all lies I've sold 
When love's murders gone cold 
Fear slips in 
Right in the within 
Whirlwinded I'm hindered 
The return slow I've lingered 
Hush like a lady 
Until feelings are hazy 
As she slips right on by 
Stops old man Theodore asking why 
With her wooly wooliness 
She's clean cleanliness 
Her feet are untravelled 
Her hearts unraveled 
But I'm sooty 
But I'm sweet 
Sweet like peppermint defeat 
But I just feel cowardly lazy 
To step out from the hazy 
My skittish splendour 
Olden times has rendered 
It's just like paddingtons hat 
Watching trains go by sat 
My welcome mat 
Uninviting, just for show 
Tells tantalazing to go 
Not on my own, words uttered 
Not just bread I've buttered 
I'm losing my minds path 
And invoking hearts wrath 
Just won't do, this change reverse is a hue 
A sullen snapshot 
Lump throat, tied knot 
Got me all exploded 
Me oh my I'm unencoded 
Just too tasty to linger 
To watch in frozen silence 
The door's crack sneak bigger.