Long Aromatics Poems

REFINED LOVE

My mother cossets me in her arms,
I feel her heartbeat, call rehearsed -
The heartache and absent charms,
The drama of my spouse conversed.

          Beloved, by my...

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I can still remember years ago in the 80's
When the pubs were packed
You'd pay for your beer with Ten pounds and get change back
You could keep a girlfriend for more than two minutes
And knew their...

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We hurtle down the last few hundred feet 
of steep lavender lined cobbled slope 
shaded by majestic umbrella pines - around
a last hairpin turn and there they are:

The blue-white Pampelonne beaches, of St Tropez.
Their indecent...

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That first non-rhythmical matter, 
Floated on the new dust of light, 
To whet the eleventh spark clatter, 
Such that its dividend split tight; 
A web, a sea of ringed atmosphere, 
Then a cob of meteoric...

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Knocking boots,
it was fun until the boots got old.

The best scrumpy
was not a girl at all, but a pint of raw cider.

Midway through a hike, she cooked up
hot Irish stew in a chill mountain mist.
Never...

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Afar off as Luna disturbs the briny sea air, its pallid 
lips farewell kiss of former throne fairs to absence. 
Heir apparent solace a crown restored as its Hymn 
privilege rejuvenates Sol's nurtured Hawaiian Isles.

As...

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Dawn flings
Sparkling light;
Dreamy daze ends

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Birdsong serenade
By balcony rails;
Solo performance

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Joy words
Inner music rhymes;
Passion ignites

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A lover's touch
Kindness blooms;
Ecstasy confronts

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Hush of morning
Soft footfalls;
Early rising

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Musical notes
Neighbour's house warming;
Happy escapades

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New eatery
Upmarket permutations;
Expensively nice!

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Lunch discourse
Three voices shared;
Birthday meal here

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Fragrant moments
Wind through...

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One mean footed man said to another "where are the swan cakes?". To which the right angled man replied "I ate them. I ate them. I own them all. I ate them." Passing from behind...

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ESTIMATING NINE MONTHS FROM ESKIMO KISSES

TUNDRA tunics
tendered,
holding hot
homeothermic
sentient swaddling,
stirred with
warm waves of
cocoa cresting charm,
bathed in barometric
swoon.
sweetheart neckline
netted nefariously
close -
charm capitulated.
frowns forever forlorn,
as aromatics allure —
cologne colonization,
fever-pitch
of friendship,
not so subtly
sensuous —
harbored hashtag,
blue breath
below freezing —
frenetic, freeing
OF...

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