Best Cheek(A) Poems

PART 1:          THE MEETING

Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went with shoulders bent (the storms around me howled)
until I met a Silhouette behind a sultry smile – 
She gazed with...

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I am home ...

oh, my heart
      pray, hush its cadence
         for the sacred sake of unsated thirst
   beg its thrums be not now abounding ...

each dream comes haunting, dusted in...

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In her tear and dirt streaked face
Her melancholy eyes still seek
Shifting memories that flit and flee
Shadows of the past still speak

A Spark of Hope for each passing glance
Searching for her love long gone
Rain or shine in this spot each day
Rejection plays its own soulful song

Deep...

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(What an honor it was from me when a poet whom I greatly admire asked me to collaborate with him. I was absolutely thrilled! I love his work! This is the result of our "conversation" together. Yes, that is truly what it was...a conversation. He'd...

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Like snowflakes on my eyelashes

Like the gentle wind that blows

Like the rustle of leaves on trees

and birds chirping  in  the eaves

You come each day and touch my soul

With fingers warm and light 

And kiss my cheek a breath of jasmine

that make my senses...

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She wanders to a dream, a place
Where weeping willows brush her face
Beneath the branches bending low 
She's walking where a garden grows

Grass gently sways, as cool as glass
And timid blows the warming breeze,
That fetches shining hair with ease
With wisps of gold, which fly astray, 
Like...

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YOUNG AGAIN

I looked into the mirror yesterday
And in it saw the ravages of time.
Tired eyes and hair that long since turned to grey,
So many years since I was in my prime.
I felt despair; how quickly time had flown.
So much undone that now would never be.
And...

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Oh, God, spare me the bloodied, thorny, rose
call it naught by the color of its shame
promises of loves unending future
masking the silent scent of love’s demise.

Glory not the crimson of its passing
nor weep as crying petals hit the floor
hold tight to thorn stung stem -...

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A girls night out,guys,can be quite a drag,
Going on a prom date,walk with a sleeping bag,
To show off your date,to boast and brag,
Sit patiently on the coach,like a good little lad,,,

A girls night out,can be quite a scare,
Searching the closet,for what cloths to wear,
Hours in...

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She lay upon the sand, lowtide-cold, salted-dry, dissheveled.
Tomorrow would have been her twenty first birthday,
unadorned, except for the seaweed in her brassy blonde hair.
Tip-toeing across her blue-gray cheek, a pink crab foraged,
unhindered, it dined on the whites of her eyes.
Only the sea and sand cradled...

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As ashen storm clouds brew above his head,
his furrowed brow denotes catastrophe. 
The lash of his tongue like fire brings such dread
a broken heart is all she can foresee.

Heated anger joins the howl on winds misled,
a wild child of tantrum's misdirected decree,
his glacial heart disperses...

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I walk through the forest in the evening mist.  The
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Quiet as a mouse
tip toeing to the shower 
washed, dressed, now ready
her cheek, a loving kiss left
looking back, tanned beauty sleeps




31/03/15...

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Please make this last forever, Dear,
and bid the moon not disappear.
For when it does, then like a brash,
will come the light of day to dash
this night as soft as warm cashmere. 

You say sweet words and are sincere,
but love can die and leave a gash,
and...

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Boast brownies baking
in dirty palm oil bacon fat
Sugar-coated swine vanilla cupcakes;
pineapple upside down snout snacks,
so coconut phone hasty ...
Sound-byte puff pastry

Flour-face teflon pan —  
tart marshmallow mint muffin
Silver tongue baguette 
spooning out citrus acid banter batter, 
so sour cream tasty ...
Lip huff puff pastry

Pinocchio...

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