Best Raynes Poems

For years he'd loved her and believed
it was a beautiful affair,
for on some nights, he'd slip away
and knew she always would be there.

They'd meet at restaurants or bars,
but when he traveled out of state,
he'd take her to a nice hotel.
Once in the room, he could...

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Come gently like a winding trellis
stroking my shape as you fondle
 my vulnerability, and tease,
 tease curves of my spine with whispers
to unleash what is half-awake in my eyes,
draping my flesh with the scent 
of this moistened night…
And I am lost among fibrous roots
clinging to...

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My ordinary life -
like the plain stretching across the region of my birth,
has been for the most part
 rather smooth.
Though sometimes on my path, I’d encounter hills,
    they were few and were not difficult 
       ...

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If I should die, dress me in purple satin
On my neck a string of pearls fasten
Lay upon me roses red
A weeping tear shed
Oh, this I
Dread
Cannot lie
Life is a thread
The end of it, I do dread
Promise, I will not be forgotten
If I should die, dress...

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Still life

A beautiful gardenia
in a glistening cut glass vase
Captured of a time before
when the light was perfect,
the fragrance sweet and the petals 
soft as vanilla pudding ~ still life

Our love was that of dreams,
picture perfect 
Captured in a photograph,
placed in a heart shaped
ornate silver frame
displayed...

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Can't Walk Away


Oh, this obsession, and the need
     to reach that high once I've begun;
so hard to stop, can't walk away
     till this addiction's had its run.

Oh, please, you know I cannot stop,
    ...

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irresistible and
sexually alluring
a wanton vixen
entices with candy lust
fire sparkling in her eyes...
he greedily follows her
into the shadows of
an eerie misty night, 
down the narrow
winding path of no return...

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -...

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One August day, to Hamburg’s great surprise,
I showed up in their Inner Alster Lake.
I peered at passersby with big blue eyes;
two knees poking up caused a double-take!
Nearby the promenade they’d had me placed -
at least two tons of gorgeous womanhood!
Alas! It was not many days...

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Though I ain't a cordon bleu chef as the title might imply,
I can still whip up gourmet fare in the blink of an eye!
And to an oven or a fryin' pan I need not be a slave,
As long I can open cans and boxes and...

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I  am the wind

You cannot see me ,but you can feel me

breezin' gently through your hair

Brushin' slightly across your cheek 

Whisperin' softly 'neath your ear

I am the wind , whirling , howling

roaring fiercely   against the desert sand

 which sifts silently through ...

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I look at the calendar 
Check the date and time
My appointment looms
Just three days to go

I light a lavender scented candle
And inhale the soothing scent
It calms my nerves

Only three days to go
I dread the though of the mammogram machine
Squeezing and squashing my breasts
Will my lump...

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Daily, we look at strangers such as cashiers; they see us too.

Removed from them, can we describe their faces? Can they describe ours?

Invisibility seems part of the human condition.


Written Feb. 20, 2017 for the Invisible Contest of Lewis Raynes...

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Love's Like Sugar Cane

Tender tendrils
of the same vine, 
we entwine
with hearts a fluttering, 
beating ecstatically as one, 
floating on wings
of iridescent butterflies, 
satisfyingly satiated by
love juices squeezed from an  
orange, bright summer day. 
Cherry blossom kisses 
from pink juicy lips, 
sprouting silky petals 
that...

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DIFFICULTY: -noun
a trouble or struggle; something that is hard to understand or surmount

I’ve felt hell’s fire and dealt with many circumstances I may confide-
But the most difficult thing I have to live with is being touched by suicide.
She brought sunshine to my rain and day...

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She is the talk of the town, every season that passes
You'll see her around,.... Miss Sassy Pistashe
Who flaunts her good looks, preening over the sage 
When she makes her grand entrance, she’s the rage of the stage!

Changing clothes after summer, wearing feathers, so brash
she is...

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