My Porcelain Love

Our dance began in the spring, it was meant to be.
There was a glimpse of heaven in your perfect smile.
Although imprisoned by desire, I still felt free!
Yet pleasure turned to pain after a little while.

My friends warned me, that I should stay away from you.
Still the heart wants what it wants regardless of cost!
Moments felt like eternity but were too few.
You absorbed my very essence and I was lost.

I fell willingly into your passionate arms.
Upon a pleasured bed I intertwined with you.
My logical mind was overcome by your charms.
I idealized perfection, that's what fools do!

Try as I might to reach your sad and lonely heart.
You never allowed me to touch more than your skin.
It was almost like being, enchanted by art.
Imagining substance, but the canvas was thin.

Fate gifted us passion, we drank from its chalice;
wading through waves of fierce flame increasing ardor.
In summer, your sweet roses covered our palace.
The time away from your touch has become harder.

As I look across a wind-blown spray of ocean,
my mind turns to the sadness of our parting hours
Kneeling, I beg for a distance closing potion
so I can reclaim coveted castle tower.
My wish is to be with you there in your bower.

To see a lovingly longing, desperate face
enshrined in fears deepest depths as we part from clutch.
I remind you distance cannot erase love's trace
or lessen my need to feel your soft, gentle touch.

Last week, I sent you a love-soaked, tear-stained letter;
For I'll return aboard a ship needing your love.
I truly believe no one can love you better,
Yet I fear you'll shatter like a porcelain dove?

Written with my friend Robert Lindley.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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Godwin Avatar
December 13, 2015 at 4:12 PM
Beautiful passionate, filled with emotion from each side of love - the joy and the pain. I like this bunches and bunches ... CayCay
Lamoureux Avatar
December 13, 2015 at 4:22 PM
Thank Cay Cay.;0)
Dietrich Avatar
December 10, 2015 at 3:59 PM
what a great duet, you two!! I can really see robert's influence in this one, Richard. And you blended well with his rhyming style.
Lamoureux Avatar
December 13, 2015 at 4:23 PM
Thanks Andrea.
Manassian Avatar
December 10, 2015 at 9:28 AM
Please check your soupmail...
Lamoureux Avatar
December 10, 2015 at 10:38 AM
On my way.
Hynson Avatar
December 9, 2015 at 6:03 PM
What tragic surroundings, needing what can never be offered. Rather than shatter, it seems she'll depart. But one would hope otherwise.
Lamoureux Avatar
December 10, 2015 at 10:37 AM
Thanks Johnnie.
Lindley Avatar
December 6, 2015 at 12:25 PM
Richard, truly an honor to compose with you and enjoy your expertise and great creativity in our composing! Always a learning experience for me and much appreciated my friend. "I fell willingly into your passionate arms. Upon a pleasured bed I intertwined with you. My logical mind was overcome by your charms. I idealized perfection, that's what fools do!" ^^ Exactly what got me with my first two, ex-wives. A sad bit true reality in my younger life. lol
Lamoureux Avatar
December 8, 2015 at 6:12 PM
I'm glad it is a past reality my friend. Also I wish to say thanks for the opportunity to write with you again, it was a pleasure. If you have a chance check out my collaborative poem with Freddie Vassal, i think it is an interesting piece.
Duggan Avatar
December 5, 2015 at 7:13 PM
This is a lovely poem Richard written by two great poets, I don't usually like collaborations but this one is good, it's not that I don't like them it's just that really one person can't take the credit for it and you can't call it your own, anyway I did love this one and you both write so well, take care...............Vera
Lamoureux Avatar
December 5, 2015 at 8:23 PM
You are kind Vera, thanks for the thoughtful visit.
Hamilton Avatar
December 5, 2015 at 4:43 PM
Very nice, what an accomplishment, very difficult task, but executed in perfect harmony.
Lamoureux Avatar
December 5, 2015 at 5:19 PM
Thanks John.
Allison Avatar
December 5, 2015 at 1:29 PM
WOW I was hooked from start to finish - a fabulous collaboration Richard and Robert:-) hugs Jan xx7
Lamoureux Avatar
December 5, 2015 at 1:35 PM
Thanks, Robert wrote the last four stanzas first and tasked me with writing the first four.
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