The dance of the two sexes,
Two poles in balance,
Does not take a rocket scientist
To figure out;
Men get the most attractive women
They can afford
While women get the richest men
They can attract…
Does it matter
If they ever really understand each other?
Apparently not.
(9/14/26)
Attraction between us?
Admiration for you?
Devotion for one night?
Obsession for a lifetime?
Aphrodite has cursed me?
Unprecedented, this desire to love, you say?
To spend my days beside you?
To flee my desires, my very self?
If it is right now
In last is bread and butter
Before first was bread
When it’s just me and you,
We become actors on the big screen.
We’re exploring each other’s chemistry,
Because nothing’s set in stone yet.
What makes you different from everyone else?
The look in your eyes only makes me curious.
It lures me, and I let all my defenses down.
I can’t tell if this feeling is a good thing.
Instead of running into his arms, you hug me,
Whispering your worries as you lay on my chest.
The same worries you should tell him, but
You hide them behind smiles while thinking of me.
When was the last time you told him,
“I love you,” as you looked into his eyes?
Compared to the last time we talked
About your dreams, cuddles under the stars.
I know I’m so selfish
For wanting this so bad.
Even though it’s nothing physical,
I’m getting more of you than him.
How far can this go behind his back?
I wish I knew how to end this properly,
But you’re the only thing stuck in my mind,
And I can’t let go yet.
I hope nothing bad happens.
I saw her in the marathon
She was limber and lithe and slim
Between mallards like a swan
I had the urge to show off, to win
She glided over the London route
Like water flowing around a stone
Like an ethereal tune from a flute
I passed her, and I ran alone.
I got to the ending tape
There was a man waiting with a kid
He hugged her out of shape
Because of the time she did
Then I realized I'd run the best
Even if I felt like a dupe
Chasing that wisp, I'd beaten the rest
Of the motley crew in my age group.
Around my neck, a medal for the course
The cameras clicked, people cheered
Newspapers said I was a dark horse
Out of nowhere, I had appeared.
I saw her walking toward the park
Her husband carrying her gear
She didn't know she’d been my spark
And suddenly my head was clear.
Oh, I saw her in the marathon
A silver stream for the duration
And now that breathless day is gone
I'll take the motivation.
She was a phantom in the crowd
A beautiful, fleeting sign
She made me run till I was proud
Until I crossed that finish line.
Be mine, oh please, love my heart, soul and gut
Your meanness is sexy, my darling ____
Oh, my dear AG
Turn your fury on me
Scream insults at me as I swat your _____
by Robert Gorelick
Rants and raves at congress, she’s domineering
Attorney General’s reputation smearing
Unlike humble Ghandi
She's Mean-Girl Bondi
A maniac, hard-hearted and hard-of-hearing
by I Am Anaya
Happy Valentine's Day!
2/14/26
Pushing reason away in the uk..
That we see' is the 'quyeer karma
Way.!
She wore my vision in her eyes,
she felt my fingers hands and arms embracing her she Soul was delighted but yet surprised
The scent of me endowed embraced her nose her heart yet beat yet her spirit knows. Such a souring sigh but yet within her breath we embraced we engaged. We Touch breast to chest and long and dating sensational spiritual attraction are physical interaction...
---alast our spiritual physical attraction
12/5/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2025
Your love pulls me like the tide
That draws a drifting leaf to shore —
Not with force, but with a whispering hand of water,
Soft as memory, deep as longing’s core.
Your love pulls me like dawn’s first light
Over shadowed hills of doubt and fear,
Gentle rays spill — gold threads stitching day to night,
Turning cold grey skies to something dear.
Your love pulls me like a vine to sunlight,
Seeking warmth beyond the cracks in stone,
Roots reaching in silence — tender, urgent, unafraid —
Pulling fragile green through dust and bone.
Your love pulls me like a lantern in the dark,
Casting warmth upon the trembling walls of my heart,
Each flicker a promise, each glow a guide —
A soft beacon leading me out of night to start.
And I follow — drifting, climbing, glowing —
Because your love pulls me home,
Home to hope, home to warmth, home to quiet strength
Where my wandering soul finds gentle rest in your own.
You
Do you,
I'll be me....
Magically
Universally,
Bonding and melting, we
Stay steadfast eternally
Seamless, harmless, attraction blooms,
Grows consensually pleasuring
benefits beautifully, Lovers love!
Under the seamless sky sparkling with satin sheen
the reflection of the mesmeric moon holds you
afloat on the fervent waves of the stardust surge.
I’m silently drawn by the patina of your charisma.
That’s how my dormant desire awakens enticed
by your shimmering radiance of the moonshine
as my vision is enwrapped by the tapestry of dream
weaved with the spectral strings of your longing.
Like the crown of the pearly dew you embellish
the beguiled blades of grass of my flushing meadow
I call my yearning sanguinely spread to where you are
on the new turquoise trail traced out only for me.
Like the silver streaks on the waltzing waves of the sea
I see you dance on the crests of ebullient euphoria.
In the mystique night drenched by moondust drizzle
you sparkle like the diadem of bejeweled cobalt sky.
The true essence of love I then perceive entranced
in the aria of your tinsels gleaming within me,
while the enchanting luster of your celestial shine
pulls me toward you to glow forever as a star.
Fatal attraction was its curse
A fate worse than slow painful death
~ an addiction undeniably unequivocally unavoidable
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you love” - Rumi
Our hearts are drawn mysteriously
attracted to a force field
by a powerful magnetic pull
we often know not why ~
feels like it’s just meant to be.
Hushed calls from deep within
to reach out and connect.
Be it to a soul or trinket,
will not take no for an answer.
It calls out to us most insistent
like the future holding open a door
or fate working its magic.
We’re made to feel like the tides
gently pulled one way then the other.
That’s our soul leaning towards its wants
~ telling us in not so many words
the path we are meant to follow.
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Submitted on October 26, 2025 for contest RUMI QUOTES sponsored by SOTTO POET - RANKED 3RD
and January 12, 2026 for contest YOUR LOVE PULLS ME sponsored by ANOUCHEKA GANDAGISSOON - HONORABLE MENTION
In night's chance, my eyes found you,
and my heart saw love.
Since, my heart fantasizes
your eyes saw love, too!'
The stars lean closer when she moves,
Rare beauty folded in her quiet step.
A breath of perfume,
The air is changed—
It is sweeter,
As though spring has learned a new song.
Her legs are longer than the shadows,
Her fingers linger like willows in the wind,
Her small feet are swifter than birds
Across the fields of dawn.
She is athletic as rivers leaping,
Intelligent as the hidden moon,
Empathetic as rain that softens
The hardest clay of sorrow.
Her mind is sound,
A place where silence finds rest,
And yet her laughter is a bell
That summons joy from the distance.
When I draw near,
She tastes of apples,
Of orchards heavy with ripeness,
Of other grand things unnamed—
A sweetness meant for autumn,
But given freely in the summer’s heart.
The great attractor is not the stars,
But the pulse within her being,
Drawing me forever into her light.
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