Husband Friendship Love Poems

Relationships are built 
On foundations.
Where some are firm,
Others are flimsy.

We often forget
What relationships are.
With a change of title
Comes immense pressure.

‘Boyfriend’ or ‘girlfriend’
In terms of ourselves.
Even...

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Samuel saw her screaming for help in the sea.
Esta failed to save her friend  who was drowning 
And some people could make fun of the...

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We stayed out late at night: back then;
In the warmer months of the season
We would go down to the lake for fun.

If it hadn't been...

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This a house of unused tools
Bought for a purpose and then
Filed in a rusty toolbox
To be never used again
For with the next project
I’d frantically search...

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Cards

I would write, 
and draw... 
and make a card
every day, 
if I thought it would 
lesson the distance between us
by only an inch. 
I would...

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Happy

You make me laugh, 
all the time. 
You make me smile 
when I don't want to.
You make me say things, 
that I never thought I...

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Missed 

The distance from here to there 
is longer than I dreamed it would be. 
I thought I could visit often, 
with you, and with...

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Circumstance
By Franklin Price
02/05/2022

When we met, by circumstance, so many years a go,
Who would have thought we'd come this far, through all the ebb and flow.
I...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Puffy fat potato heads, skinny stockings sewn,
bunched and hunched in bedrooms where
they’re scattered, scrapped, or thrown.

Clara, Dolly, Elmo, Sally, three wise sisters, Mr. mittens; 
shoes...

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I look for you
to quench my thirst.
You are like the finest wine
I most certainly deserve.
Your fragrance and soft serenity
surrounds you like a warm glow,
and like...

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LOVE IS IN THE AIR
THE LADY SHALL BE
THE ONE AND ONLY WOMAN
HE DREAMS OF A ROMANTIC EVENING
PRESENTED WITH A DIAMOND
KNEELS ON A BENDED KNEE
FLOWERS ARE...

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The Stake
by Michael R. Burch

Love, the heart bets,
if not without regrets,
will still prove, in the end,
worth the light we expend
mining the dark
for an exquisite heart.

Originally...

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Stay With Me Tonight
by Michael R. Burch 

Stay with me tonight;
be gentle with me as the leaves are gentle
falling to the earth.
And whisper, O my...

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The casement creaked under the scrutiny of darkness

A lonely candle flickered to the tune of one single log

Unhinged she sat where darkness fell upon her...

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