Eros Love Poems

If I am Syrian, what of it?
Stranger, we all dwell in one world, not its portals.
The same original Chaos gave birth to all mortals.
—Meleager translation...

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Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood

bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch

u
are
charming
& disarming,
but mostly ALARMING
since my resolve
dissolved!

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Disconcerted
by Michael R. Burch

Beth, my sweet,
fresh as a daisy,
when I’m with you
my heart beats...

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Loving and tender,
Tall and slender.
Sexy sweet,
The man he's neat.
Smooth as night,
Makes me feel alright.
My Eros
When we're so close.
He's my guy.
I tell you no lie.
Sensitive and...

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Sappho fragment #155
translation by Michael R. Burch 

A short revealing frock?
It's just my luck
your lips were made to mock!

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Sappho #156
translation by Michael R. Burch 

She...

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I love you but... for the purpose of this non-argument;
I am in subject to incline to be subornation;
I love you but...would you believe, if you’d...

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........jiggle clumsily; post halter-
behind braids- busy in evacuation of the cool pool water,
like a carefree bull in the field.
Her eyes sharp and cruel, unyielding to...

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If you’re reading this,
A loud
Or silently
This I am saying to you…

I LOVE YOU

This I do,
Because Jesus does
And God also loves you
I love you
For you took...

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Eros harrows my heart:
wilds winds whipping desolate mountains,
uprooting oaks.

—Sappho, fragment 42, translation by Michael R. Burch
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I was condemned 
from the first day I saw you.
Bewitched, enamored for ever
by your inexplicable beauty.
Little did I know
where you were to lead me.
I was...

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Rippling waters moving
feeling hypnotically soothing
under our boat it rocks us
under its spell it locks us

misty fog slightly breezing
dampening the salty air we’re breathing
over our shoulders...

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If I could rein in yonder cloud

Entwine with love's ethereal rope,

'Pon gossamer, sweet Eros wove

Heaven bound, we'd gaily float

As dormant dreams of bliss, awoke.












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Her angelic face,
Her tender voice,
Her sweet words,

Along with:

Her smiles,
Her caresses
And 
Her kisses,

Masterfully, 
Succeeded in weaving, the web of love
That 
Entangled his, helpless, enchanted heart 

Which...

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WHAT IS LOVE--

What is love, you inspire me by in site;
I love the way you call, cuddle and sigh;
Invading my mind day and through the...

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My Love How Do I Love You--


Just what is love, you inspire me to write.
How I love the way you drool, sting and fly,
Invading my...

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The stars come out tonight.
Do you see the ones I do?
That starlit, divine connection
When our DNA magically combined, 
Dancing in harmonic coordination.

I can feel your hands in...

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It’s the 1st of Feb over here, so true love is now near
and Cupid has just appeared, suddenly whispering in my ear
As he is waiting...

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An archer from Sherwood made shooting an art
Persuaded the wealthy from surplus to part.
He fell for a maid at first sight
But fearing to tell her...

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Your erotic harmony pounding harder and harder.
Beckoning me to slip-off my Eros armor
to take you against my breast and lay forever 
at rest; asking for...

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The river,

that fed the sea of their love has run dry

and now

their thirsty for affection hearts

pray to Eros for the rain of warmheartedness 

to come!








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