Rose Lust Poems

He tangoed into my life,
black eyes flash-bang exploding,
proffering his red-rose lips,
sparking fiery lust....

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Red is the flavor of passion and desire
The taste of a kiss that sets your soul on fire
Red is the spice that tingles your tongue
Heat...

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He bleeds the power of a savage redcoat
Breaking the bones of his weak allies.
That love hurts
As much as you love to hurt.
Biting the face that...

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Clutching the moment 
Before yesterday became yesterday,
The promise,
Before he pledged his love to me,
The colors,
Before autumn waltzed away, 
Swaying in shadows of soft snowfall,
Breathing white,...

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I saw a dazzling rose,
Whose red petals cast blinding hues upon me.
She shot her cupid arrows from the Kabaka’s backyard,
And punctured the cocoon of my...

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Alas, I thought you loved me
But you did not in reality
I know for facts that you love money
Success, my dreams, and property.

Yes, you did not...

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second wave of attack 

if the thorns don’t pierce you at the rose bush ~ the bee most certainly will...

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While wrestling with the rose bush I shed red droplets of envy.

John G. Lawless
©4/15/2023...

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Dolly was beside herself with thoughts 
Of this powerful man,  Damian Possessing 
Her.  She wandered around his
Spacious apartment before 
Returning to his bedroom...

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Sappho Translations II

That country wench bewitches your heart?
Hell, her most beguiling art’s
hiking her dress
to seduce you with her ankles' nakedness!
Sappho, fragment 57, loose translation/interpretation by...

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Remind me again my name,
I slip into a waking coma,
Now and then.
Now and then.
Now.
Lost in rose-coloured petals
Of what feel like memories.
Who I am?

There are time...

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No deity on heaven and earth gave repose,
When each rose petal fell heavy like monsoon rain,
The day he abandoned his sweet fragrant Rose

Buried on unhallowed...

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To get your attention, I’d sing in the rain 
I’d dance on the tracks and tease a freight train

Write a benevolent poem of grandiloquence, pining...

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Today you were born so many years ago, hell opened wide and spit out your soul
You rose from the ashes, from the brimstone far below,...

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