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Tag Archives: love poetry
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
Breezes
summer comes to a close autumnal breezes waft rustling memories of those days when the close of summer had more definitive endings sun-drenched days of youthful frolic, innocent play, done swimming, playing with frogs in holes dug on sandy beaches … Continue reading
Posted in Growing up me, The Lake, Uncategorized, Young love
Tagged first loves, growing older, growing up, growing up me, love poetry, memories, poem, poems, poems about love and romance, poetic, relationships, remembering, reminiscing, summer, summer at the lake, summer ending, summer vacation, The Lake, young love, youth, youthful summers
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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One metmorphisize fits all
Happily-ever-after mythology prefaces every sequel continuing character-driven sagas story arc only tacking an index onto volume one, three, sixteen in a set having read this scene repeatedly life movies annotated script writing, rewriting books they were based on playing déjà … Continue reading
Posted in Introspection, Uncategorized
Tagged food for thought, growing older, introspection, life, love, love poetry, poetic, remembrances, reminiscing, spirituality
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
Pic-ah-nic bas-ket! (Love is… #161)
Love is fried chicken you’re never certain – follow the rules of etiquette… …or just dive in, use your fingers savory satisfying finger-lickin’ chew-on-bone yummy, messy heart-healthy artery clogging oh-so-tasty Love is fried chicken but when all is said and … Continue reading
Advancement
I eschew sex. Firmly entrenched now in middle age I have found the act wanting, boring the physicality dull, unimaginative old hat Sex has lost its interest in me shunning sex, I have discovered making love It is the side … Continue reading
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