Billet Poems - Poems about Billet

With concentration-knit-brow pose, She reads and holds the letter close, There's good news, her joyful smile shows, Rays of hope shine through the windows; In anticipation's mad throes, Left all household chores to compose a fitting reply in love rose, Passion has turned her quite...

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One of the fringe benefits of working in a rare book bookstore is I get to hold and see…books that were published in the 1890’s…books twice as old as me! More often than not in these rare old books I’ve come to understand when I open the cover I’m going to find a dedication…written by someone’s...

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1 O, e’er she cometh and calleth me from the barren wolds whereupon lieth the first palpitation of the laconic exchange of bashful glances; O, whensoe’er thy dulcet voice wafteth o’er the hummock, and thy throat trilleth for none but me, mine eccentric euphoria is celebrated by nature; O, in the untrodden tryst wouldst thou palliate the...

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After a year of working in foreign land, Marilyn the eldest daughter wrote to her family about her situation and job. And most especially to express her true feeling to her family. Dear Mama, On the time that I left you I cannot control the tears Flowing in my eyes I couldn't see you directly And it continues to...

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Amour, A little letter for you, And a few words to state the sweet obvious. Keep the love I write of folded up in paper, Our origami correspondence, if you will. Swallows, ravens, cranes and swans, Enough for an aviary of everything you ever need to know. Un-caged, un-clipped, unending, Free to the parchment blue. Mon amant comme un oiseau, My lover like the sky....

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Unladylike though to speak this heart of mine for a certain man who makes my day shine. I admit I'm just being true to myself to this indescribable...

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