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Winter heart an ember, dark and ashen
Flint remembers steel and spark of passion
Romance astray, outlander to this place
But answers blaze in candor on your face
A castaway on sands of lost pursuit
A past of clay in hands now resolute
Receiving desolation, you wrought joy
Belief and exultation unalloyed
My wayward hope returning from afar
Desire burning, yearning for your star
My Eros, rising with the early sun
Anteros’ prize, our lonely vigil done —
Embrace with grace the waiting winter brings
Enkindling the flame of endless springs
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Orchidaceae
To the moulting orchids on my kitchen counter:
Please know I picked you out specially.
I said once it seems odd to buy flowers for a man. He asked why. I didn’t have an answer, so this Valentine’s I went to the floral section in the IGA downstairs. There was one plant in a red-and-gold pot left from the Chinese New Year, and lots of pastels, but you spoke to me.
Five stems, a five-finger rainbow. Pink, pale orange, blue-purple, red-yellow, and neon green. You remind me of the socks he wears to his office job on the sixteenth floor. He’s built like that building, tall enough the socks show under his cuffs.
To me, orchids
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l'amour a distance
we love like vagrants,
ours a truck stop romance,
ours all the vagaries of
runaway time:
us a roadside motel,
us a highway map,
us a crumpled collection
of interstate lines.
ours a vagabondish worship
of the distances we drive.
and all the violence of longing,
is that yours or is it mine?
and the vacancies in my body,
are they yours
or are they mine?
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Of candles and consequences.
Write, poet: write
of misshapen mishaps,
of the long awaited rain,
of a walk with butterflies,
of little things that fill homes,
of fathers who lose their children,
of the clear resonance of the empty north,
of snow in rain when coming back from fencing,
of a curious warm feeling -- that warmth for you
(burning me down,
millions of years in the making),
of the end of you and I.
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This is for My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink's "Spread the Love" contest for Valentine's Day.
Quite by accident, I ended up using the prompt "Eros" in my Shakespearean Sonnet...
Valentine, light of my life, heart of my heart... you are always with me.
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Quite by accident, I ended up using the prompt "Eros" in my Shakespearean Sonnet...
Valentine, light of my life, heart of my heart... you are always with me.
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Great opening verse!