Tag: love
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Cleaning the Church
Chapelein in apple green cleaning the chapel Vestibules signalling foliate spring festival A capful of rum in pineapple punch he took at luncheon, unburdening him of learned trenchancy Lending him confidence enough to pen off a sentence, he has never been much for entrances Preferring exits Entranced by orders and oaths of office, saint’s bones…
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Prayer to Love
Now I write of things pleasant, cleanse my palette of death’s mention An ode to love tender and long lasting, varied and sensual, mysterious Tension of a life spent in willing company, the will subdued but the heart freed Of its foremost need, that deed once signed marks a love that should shine eternal A…
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Chasing Iseult
Fish to a gull My every plan she is the result She engulfs me Only her love can free me Thoughts of her like an orchestral theme follow me Even in dreams she is queen thereof. An insult to call Iseult Isolde Mark knows of her affairs but will not dissolve the marriage Nor absolve…
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Redress
Got a fourfold vision, assailed without break I sail without break, I am the surface breaker You are fast, the better rapier handler I have been handled, kneeling panting Offer me a hand if first I will kiss your sandal My mail breaker mistakes you for Dracula, stakes you I walk up to the woman…
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Love bird
Are you a sweet song thrush Or a magpie here for the shine in my eye Are you a Wren in the brush Moorhen in the brook, hawk in the sky You seem to parrot me A paltry parody of prosody No primer to be a prodigy Might well be a wood pigeon Cut down…
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