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Kiss Me, Love

Love, I’ve never known you to be as gorgeous As you are in lying beside me sweetly, At this very moment; and nothing other Pleases me better… Come and kiss me now, my beloved: tender Touches take me, ravish me, make me breathless, Eyes and lips embodying invitation! Kiss me forever… Note: I hope the subject matter isn't too racy; it seemed appropriate for a poem using a form Sappho used. I also wished to capture something of the fragmentary nature of much of her surviving work.

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Date: 2/13/2021 9:03:00 PM
A pleasure to find your lovely poem published in the 2020 PS Anthology, John~
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Date: 3/5/2019 3:19:00 PM
What a beautiful, sensuous poem you have penned! Best regards. Pandita
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J P Marmaro
Date: 3/12/2019 7:49:00 PM
Thanks so much, Pandita! I thought that sensuousness was appropriate to Sapphic stanzas. -JP
Date: 3/2/2019 2:51:00 PM
Hello J.P. Marmaro, it is romantic. Have a nice day my friend.
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J P Marmaro
Date: 3/12/2019 7:50:00 PM
Thanks very much indeed, Darlene!

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