Relationship Intimacy Poems

Everyone wants someone to make them whole.
I have dissected myself. 
Mind, body, Soul.

I am not missing a part.
I’ve just shattered my heart.
Poked at my mind...

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I cannot know if we shall meet again,
when next we share
sore secrets,
solemn
truths,
a
tidbit
here or there.
Standstill in time,
shared between two strangers who never met.
An exchange of sorrowful...

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‘Sell your soul’
Is how it all starts,
With talk of a kiss
And maybe more. 

Talk turns to action,
One kiss turns to two.
The promised deal
Closing in. 

The...

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I don't want to chase down the sun on the beach,
I don't need to stand in the sand with the ocean at my feet,
I don't...

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a buffer between the you and the me
the constant mediator chaperoning

criticizing with its glare and pursed lips
negating the realm of possibilities

as it downplays the fragranced...

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"Not tonight, dear, I've got a headache;"
previous night she claimed a different ache.
Everything with wife once nice,
now hubby skates on thin ice.
Looks like they're headed...

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With a smile that lights the heart
There is love – kindness
With a gift sent on a joyful thought
There is love – brilliant miracles
With a sense...

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at home behind closed doors
sheltered from the wintry wind that roars
within the walls of sweet intimacy
there's a world comprised of you and me
where our haven...

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Inner circle of total trust
No other dare try enter
Tactfully earned year after year
Intimately nurtured with tender love
Many obstacles were thrown our way
And it’s together that...

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At Once
by Michael R. Burch

Though she was fair,
though she sent me the epistle of her love at once
and inscribed therein love’s antique prayer,
I did not...

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I heard the clanging of the gate
As wonder and fear began to reverberate 
The more you opened up, I ran in
Neither of us concerned for...

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I wait by the mine
Outside the camp.
Between us, the pinyons
Slash and partition
Your fire, like fence posts.
They keep me at bay.

Here in the shadows, 
I think...

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Do you ever get the feeling ya being watched
Do you ever get to sleep if ya dream of demons creeping up
Do you measure yourself by...

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Rooted but branches
Swaying in the wind
Reaching Extending 
Touching nothingness
Lost in a vast expanse
Yet waiting in a vacuum 
Alone Aloof Reflexion
I thought I would never find...

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"To sense your own ungodliness in becoming utterly aware
Looking back upon your mess your soul now coming bare
Your Creator who is above has made Himself...

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