Anais Vionet Poet Free verse

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I live by

I live by love, as I live by food
I anatomize my days,
weeding my time
to invest in him.

So I may love better.
For as heaven hath sent me fortune
heaven hath sent me love also
and it’s no counterfeit success.

He knows me - my moods -
when I’m dispos'd to be merry
or as the windy sky changes
and my mood's turned to scorn.

When we're in tune
we come, peremptory,
as if for dinner
to our more giddy desires

for I live for that love
as I live by food.
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Songs for this:
Constant Craving (Fashionably Late Remix) - k.d. lang & Tracy Young
Champagne Problems / I'm Yours (feat. Alexandra McGoey & Riley Fleming) - The Sirens
Nothing Can Stop Us - Saint Etienne
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Webster: Peremptory: prompt requiring immediate compliance

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Chris Conn November 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM Deeper please.

Tania Winther November 14, 2025 at 7:08 AM I live by love... Beautiful and well written x Anais Vionet November 14, 2025 at 10:43 AM Thank you =]

Vincine Fallica November 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM SIGH . I remember that. I’ve loved, and lost, more times than I deserve. Sometimes it was my fault, sometimes hers, sometimes ours. . I envy those who can manage a LIFETIME in love with the SAME person. Something I’ve missed in my life, and I wish for you, ESPECIALLY, to have. <3, Vin Anais Vionet November 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM We're only in year 3 - babies in love ??