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Sparks of Hope
Sparks of Hope (for Marcel and Susie) From the flames and through the smoke Of your past experience, Dancing, shining sparks of hope Make their warm appearances. Let the ruins of the past Not oppress your sentiments; Nor the present troubles blast Love’s wise sense of innocence. […]
Like You?
Like You? For many years he sought her To make his dreams come true; So, if he’d had a daughter, She would have been like you, And all the love he brought her Would be a father’s due, […]
Consensuality
Consensuality (for Heidi and Pierre) [ To give oneself completely is to cede control To someone else – whom we entrust implicitly With its safe keeping in love’s tender liberty – Of self-possession’s pride in body, mind and soul. ] […]
Reciprocating Love
Reciprocating Love (for Heidi and Pierre) We love each other with our minds And all the senses we possess, Vowing we’ll always try to find Ways to sustain shared happiness. We both reciprocate our love In every small particular As each of us competes to prove […]
Sacrificial Obsession
Sacrificial Obsession Quite casual it was. I said: ‘Goodbye’; You answered with a silent nod. Then I Departed. At your strongly-termed insistence, (After three decades of our shared existence; Such complex years of courtship, marriage, gain, Children and happiness; of loss and pain, Love, […]
Contrarious Love
Contrarious Love Sometimes good and sometimes bad, Sometimes joyful, sometimes sad, Sometimes blessing, sometimes curse, Sometimes better, sometimes worse; Love’s all these and that is why It’s a disturbing agency.
Pandora's Box
Pandora’s Box Our love is like Pandora’s Box, So I implore you not to pry Too closely. Nor to force those locks Which hold its secret from each eye. Let’s guard it with devoted care To keep its mystery from harm, In true belief that we can share […]
Proportionality
Proportionality (In flagrante delicto) Tie them up – so! – As Leonardo Posed his ‘Proportionate Man’: That at my leisure I may then pleasure My retributory plan. Strip off their clothes To starkly expose Intimate attributions, So each one can see, […]
Woman
Woman God made Woman perfectly When her He did create; Not one thing did He neglect To please glad Man, her mate. Hair seductive frames her head, (Prettier than jewelled crown), A fragrant veil of gossamer Softer than the finest down. […]
Avoca
Avoca We made a pilgrimage to see the place Which has been, always, deep within her mind, My darling’s home and haven of repose. There, at the ‘Meeting of the Waters’, we Stood together and drew into our […]