Tag: romance
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Eastern Dreams of Sand-Strewn Elysium
Near the eyrie of a minaret from where mage-capped ziggurats are miniscule Teacher pupil school: Fisher hauls in his net His son grabs one end to help A hundred mackerel a cast eye assumes. Up here flies zooming like flying carpets, city rotting carapace of a dog carcass Catacombs to ark ever-mounting bones resemble halls…
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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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Saucier 2
I know I dropped ball, one set of feet fall In the corridors between my empty halls Like silver beams scaffolding between Kabbalah balls I know I played my part in the closing of her heart Days dart by as if bound for bullseye, I’m playing Guitar Hero Outside Rome’s burning, I am Nero Short…
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Players Please
Skeleton finger hands limbering up above piano keys Attained by degrees these masteries Black and white in rank and file she prods songs from chess pieces Keratin traces every face along its length, rousing scales She plays one handed Her profiled eye like a sunfish side winks, old romantic Head nodding in drugged emphasis Another…
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Yellow Rose
She grows that garden rose Grows without control Sweet smells climb up my nose Everything goes on under my nose Without my knowing. She is a rose Her billowing robe flows like abundant sap Chinese female gold, her dress is yellow orpiment Her shift in yellow also, gem of the orchard She is a scorching…
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Armoured Goodbye
He is wearing armour Whispering romance languages Sands stop seething through time’s vial, all is languid Mo chara, mo chroí, amor Tomorrow, ámararch, I march without sorrow You will die, she protests, Mairbh I go the way of all flesh and all armadas In the ground and beneath the sea They trade claddaghs He goeth…
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Love You (Aggressively)
After a steinful she’s shameful and of that shame I’m praiseful, partaking full Smoke so much weed our minds are dull Full of forgotten compliments I sulk and forget what sent me there Impediment to action becomes action, I’m mad I care You are my medicare My bald head’s fair Samson hair You get immune…
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How We Met
Tender as His Mercy Love can happen from Tinder On profiles we tender ourselves How can you expect affection when you won’t lend yourself to anyone a red second Wanted first, had second, third had no objection Never been an also ran, never had a second plan, self assured I’m iron man I’m not overcautious…
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What You Wanna Know?
Did senior infants twice Had head lice Had strikes, struck out thrice Got head twice one night different mouths Almost lost count but not of lies I told Could see us growing old together, sprouting mould together Two go-getters get wetting, wet getting, house shopping and make nesting Enduring all weathers When our hands are…