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Tag Archives: love poem
Midway? All the way. (Love is… #39)
Love is a day at the fair flashing neon, loud music, exotic sights, smells, sounds, enticements, leering inducements of all sorts adrenaline-pumping sensory overload You know you shouldn’t overindulge but you do and then you get sick but what a … Continue reading
Posted in Love and Romance, Relationships, Uncategorized
Tagged carnival, cotton candy, fairs and carnivals, love, love poem, love poetry, midway rides, romance, romantic, romantic poetry, romantic verse, state fair, sticky messes
Jarring (Love is… # 71)
Poets have often likened love to roses summer days pastoral scenes other sundry phenomena saccharine sells in toto love is not candy roses sweet imagery clichés violin soundtracks I, having lived love see more esoteric practicality from, for the heart … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged love, Love Is, love poem, love poetry, poems, Valentine, Valentines Day
Morning coffee
Saturday Early, but not too I bring her a cup of coffee rich stuff, the good stuff our special Saturday blend She stirs gently, like the brew setting the mug on her nightstand pheromones blend with aromatic Arabica Saturday morning … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee, Love and Romance, Relationships, Uncategorized
Tagged coffee in bed, love, love poem, poem, poetry, romance, romantic verse, Saturday morning, weekends
Love at the middle ages
Being your knight in shining armor often means more work for you pounding out dents knocking off rust slapping in Bondo minimizing creaks knowing just when, where to squirt WD40 There is nobility in your exasperation at my Quixotic nature … Continue reading
Posted in Love and Romance, Passion, Uncategorized
Tagged love, love poem, love poetry, relationships, romance, romantic poetry
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Vestiges
As kids, we tied our fates to various inanimate yet participatory objects spun bottles Ouija boards dandelions professed proof of true loves brought cryptic messages all interpreted with certainty until the imagined magic wore off leaving us with our first … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged love, Love Is, love poem, love poetry, Ouija boards, relationships, remembering, remembrance, spin-the-bottle
Distance
The expanse is self-inflicted a self-exiled expatriate; I am here, not there answered a calling, have since done my best at least pretty well considering restraints with which I had to work sometimes I feel my work here done my … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Introspection, Uncategorized
Tagged answering a call, callings, crossroads of life, curiosity, decisions, doubts, expatriates, faith, growing older, indecision, introspection, life, love poem, poems, poetic, poetry, ponderable, self doubt, self-awareness, spirituality, stages of life, the future, what’s next, wondering
Pictures
We were a long time ago years? decades? lifetimes? carbon dating? time is filled in a long forgotten coloring book half the pictures never finished bold, black-line outlines dated, quaint stumbled across by accident you flip through remembering all the … Continue reading
Posted in Love and Romance, Reflections, Relationships, Uncategorized, Young love
Tagged Coloring book, growing older, love, love poem, love poetry, old lovers, old loves, poems about love and romance, poems about old loves, poems about past loves, poems about past relationships, poetry about past relationships, Radiocarbon dating, relationships, remembering, remembrance, remembrances, reminiscing, romance, the past, time
From Here to Less Certainty
A day at the beach we have been here before; I am trying to be Burt Lancaster as you hesitate to play Deborah Kerr with self-conscious protestations I have heard many times But today the kids are not with us, … Continue reading
Posted in Love and Romance, Relationships, Uncategorized
Tagged Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, film buffs, From Here to Eternity, love, love poem, movie kisses, poems, poems about love and romance, poems about memories, poems about movie stars, poems about relationships, poems about the past, poems about…, poetry, poetry about love and romance, poetry about movies, ponderable, relationships, remembering, remembrances, reminiscing, romance, romantic movie scenes
Literalists
“I would slay a dragon for you!” said he from out of the blue his lilting voice a hopeful spontaneous, off-hand musing had him hoping for more as she looked up from her paperback mystery romance “There are no dragons” … Continue reading