Ode Love Poems

Life gets tough when you aren't around.
Without none of the things you have to offer.
So much as the ease of a smile.
But what I love...

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There is a longing to the sea
	When gazing at the glossy floor.
Time and tides roll in and out,
	Lonely waves upon saddened shores.
A siren’s call from...

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When all the Earth's a bed & all the world's asleep,
When you dream of conquering the world,then shove away the thought & let the unheard...

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"LIONHEART"



My LIONHEART walks with me
Fierce is His courage
Becalmed His voice, He raises me
Never knocks me down

My LIONHEART walks with me
TRUE is His LOVE
My ONE TRUE...

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"Pearls"


More than all the Pearls in all the deepest Oceans
LOVE
Mother Daughter Becalmed
Swim

 

(Lovejoy-Burton/April 2018)
for Georgia





Isaiah 43:2 (g.n.t.)

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Into Young Womanhood

this glorious role, sans
     helping beget and nurture thine first born
three day shy of Christmas 1996,
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I turn internal, trapped in the furnace of life
And who is it that turns to me, softly, 
Easily, naturally
It is she!

Her movement is like the...

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An ethereal warmth, I once attain
A grasp of peace to grace the rain
With every drop, a fervent bliss, 
A smile, a godsend from your lips

I...

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AN ODE TO BROKEN HEARTS
**********
in the days of the mid 1950's late 1960's
cruel love followed me, cruel dreams, nightmares!
i'd wake my arms embracing sheets!
lingering perfurmes,...

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Kiss,
Your skin to my skin,
Your lips to my lips.
You linger on my tongue,
Like summer,
Lost,
In that space between breaths.

Touch,
Sacred vows spoken
Without words,
An ode to bliss,
An oath...

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North wind has gone back to polar abode
Chilled clouds have flown out on wings of winter
Made way for sunny south wind to enter
Write on rippling...

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Brown paper memories she puts in my hands
Twine roughly tied in a bow slightly askew
Part and parcel of a humble life once led?
My defiant eyes...

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Oh mother!
You were…
A sweater in my winter,
a cooler in my summer,
an umbrella in the rains,
an epic during the strains.


You had been…
A roof over my head,
a...

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For the shelter in your womb,
for the nectar in your milk,
for the laughter in your talk,
for the lustre in your look…

Never did you bother nor...

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An ode to strong women

On women's day,

Women are strong

Women are brave,

Capable of withstanding

Copious amounts of pain,

They don't allow

Weakness to get in their way,

They live so...

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My shy moth eyes
were attracted to the beauty of your flame
The pleasure of knowing you
was worth the risk of me feeling the pain
From the hurt...

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What am I to do when you cannot see the sunshine anymore? 
where positivity, love and light have vanished from your view. 
Because you, an...

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It was under summer's gaze,
The story of undiscovered possibilities ensued. 
Never minding the leap of faith I had taken;
I forcefully tell myself
that it was only...

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If I a song to you will harp-
Such that you I to muse
That'd be my chant-
So your artery and vein fuse

If a word will call
To...

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