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Cookies and Cream

I love you better 
than Cookies and Cream,
my lifelong favorite

more than seas playing footsies
with shore clams
in cuddly tropical sands

The warmth of enticing Caribbean 
soothing waters
                 
(billowy-sails...fields of overhead 
stars...night's complicit fireflies 
helping chart to a romantic cove
a beat-up heart seeking a paradise-like
new-start)

(a desire for tasteful, novel, cheerful effervescent 
brew, a need to leave on the old dock past that settled for
impure bitters)

( navigate clear of thought defacing
apps like Facebook's and Twitter's

that falsely entice, tempt   
a free-thinking, sacred spirit, to 
express living solely on a mindless
uncaring device – not a true life, just a
wax slice

not abiding complete, but in fact, 
manipulated into electronic defeat....)

Petals need firm attachment if to be
enticing blushing roses~ blooms for crinkly smiles, 
puckering lips and playful toes-es – 
                 
               Valentines of 
perfumed hearts made of hand-laid,
lacy type paper, crafted by flirty eyes
in agreement with pheromone receptive 
noses
                                           
         A softly played harp...a bower of flowers...                     
Back lathering showers shared – which 
requires a minimum of two daring 
hearts...wantonly, lovingly paired – 

Love is always trumpeted, openly, fondly, vociferously
musically declared....
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023

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Volumes Avatar
March 12, 2023 at 4:32 AM
lol You are a scream Mr DiMino ! Leaving Valsa there to get your Email !! You mean to say there is life going on outside of online cyber space ? You mean its not enough to get a beautiful E-card full of lovely pictures of roses ? Surely you jest ! But I liked your poem.
DiMino Avatar
March 12, 2023 at 6:02 AM
Indeed I jest!! Love Valsa's beautiful and inspiring comment, and your playful intuitiveness. If there is one outstanding, redeeming quality about Cyber Space, it is poetry...having the ability to transcend most banal burps put to phrase when less intelligently regulated our souls.
George Avatar
March 10, 2023 at 6:27 AM
What a wonderful expression of the romantic love you feel and how powerfully you have depicted it. I see the need for 'two hearts wantonly, lovingly paired'. Face book and twitter cannot create intimacy, but can falsely entice. Agree with you perfectly. Simply stupendous, dear Joe.
DiMino Avatar
March 10, 2023 at 8:30 AM
Hi Valsa; a lot of people substituting on-line for actually living. The world needs to get back out. Oop!~ got to go, just got email. Blessings my friend!
Andresen Avatar
March 7, 2023 at 5:55 AM
- Joe, an excellent poem...so beautifully written ...- hugs
DiMino Avatar
March 7, 2023 at 10:24 AM
Hi Sunshine; thank you. What the heck...after all is said and done, love, sharing is all that truly matters. Blessings my friend!
Rolland Avatar
March 4, 2023 at 12:10 AM
amazing poem, i loved the escaping metaphors in the Carribean islands) so many enjoyment reading this poem yann
DiMino Avatar
March 4, 2023 at 6:37 AM
Very kind of you, yann; so pleased you enjoyed the read. Thank you.
Daniel Avatar
March 3, 2023 at 10:53 PM
So many beautiful metaphors, Joe, lovely poem:)
DiMino Avatar
March 4, 2023 at 6:38 AM
Thank you Jo; have a beautiful day!
Eslinger Avatar
March 3, 2023 at 7:57 PM
Joe! Truly glad i chose to read this one. I started reacting with big smile, then you took me thru a deepscape of scenes, experiences,nemotions. I felt like a tennis ball being hit over, over the net. An vast travelling thru a love after its win. Amazing pen!
DiMino Avatar
March 4, 2023 at 6:40 AM
Hi Sally; so pleased this write gave you a smile; I know it is difficult to focus on anything when hurting. Thank you for the visit. Blessings my friend.
Kendrick Avatar
March 3, 2023 at 8:16 AM
Creative work you have penned in this one. I wonder if a love affair started on an island somewhere would be a true love. Thanks for sharing this one and for dropping by my page. Sara
DiMino Avatar
March 3, 2023 at 10:44 AM
I don't know. Good question? Lots of divorces in cities that I can attest to to:) Thank you, Sara.
Buhagiar Avatar
March 3, 2023 at 1:03 AM
In my old age and widowed, I have to prefer cookies and creams. Don't tell my doctor :)
DiMino Avatar
March 3, 2023 at 4:15 AM
A cold, quality craft beer and my ukulele, and I am set. Thank you, Victor. Have a great day my friend!
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