Relationship Analogy Poems

I stand with a treasure map,
no X to mark the spot.
A scattering of clues,
roadmaps of endless dots.

Your name is on an envelope,
surely that’s proof enough?
But...

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more …

more than I’ll ever know …
that’s how much you love me
(just spoken)
but what the hell does that mean?
how do you know that I’ll never...

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             if'n ya can't 
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In some future I will voice all that is true,
how I swear your eyes glow, and whisper to me.
But the nonchalance I show, back turned...

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Boundless sky, mine
People blooming like flowers
Before my eyes, shine....

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Agape
athirst, vigilant
anticipatory, eagerly, expectanting
welcomely warmed, watchful
dislike, ill will, unkindness
animosity, enmity
Apathetic






3/12/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
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In your silence I see colours,
speech crumbling like flaking paint, dried; truth dripping from lips, black spittle on a brush.
In the silence I inhale the...

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What should I get her?
A diary, I know she loves to write.
No, that is what I got her last time. 
A book, maybe poetry?
No, she...

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* Content Warning: this poem touches on physical/emotional abuse*

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        “dabble,...

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bam …

the thought explodes -
a tritium fusion reaction of epiphany
engulfing my every concern
knocking me on my bloated ego …
I have swum your gaze
a hundred hundred...

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My owner isn't a good one.
He forgets to feed me.
We rarely go on walks, let alone play anything together.
I am jealous of the other dogs...

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A party lingers in the stillness of a room.
Chairs moved, plates stacked, glasses
stained in red lipstick of after dinner
chatter. Cutlery criss-crossed, mosaic.

For a moment, when...

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Your laughter flows like red wine,
drunk on love now you’re mine.

Stories splash and stain my jeans,
at last, I know what love means.

Uncork my secrets and...

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Inside this temple made of brick and clay 
the many shades of your heart 
are the prisms of my soul 
Pinioned and shackled to your...

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Honey
sweet honey
food of love, nectar
sugar well amix amino antioxidants.
fruit of relationship
Sweet 
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