School Romance Poems

I prayed for you,
A thousand times, in a thousand ways.
But every single moment,
I recounted the days.

Never have I ever forgot to pray.
For which I tried...

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Her spell remains over me 44 years later

Once a bumblebee has kissed the nectar of Snapdragon
The creature is fever of succulence

She says, “You kiss so...

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"If nothing happens, the dust will
     drift and the heat deepen," from
     REASONS TO LIVE by Amy...

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Another boy at the high school dance

Seeking love and a little romance

Then the cutest girl smiled

And I bowed quite beguiled

But it ripped out the seat...

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Attraction is a small and fragile thing.
We started with stolen glances,
in crowded halls, across a coffee shop.
I was glancing (I hoped he was glancing).

It was...

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I am heaven and I am not welcome here now
and I know it will take some time until I am again
i'm unsure if my gates...

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Your soft love, my graceful dove,Kindles my dark essence.
Your divine lips and your sinful hips are of great consequence.
The whole world knows your ethereal embers,
Yet...

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I romance you, but you romance the sparkling stone
I love you with my heart, but your heart is in the phone

I talk to you lovingly,...

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Just like the countdown before Christmas
I’ve experienced these things a hundred times

15, 14, 13, 12, 11,

Giddy bubbles rise through my stomach
at the thought of a...

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I had to come round, word on the street tells me you were caught in

bed with big Brenda.

Well, let me just put that rumour to...

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I was diagnosed with double-pneumonia on the 15th and classes started on the 17th. I’m already getting nagmail about assignments, yea! I’ll be behind and...

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“It’s just a rough draft,”
he said with a laugh
but the joke is half epitaph.

I know I’ll regret it
this helping him edit
his thesis, this knife,
that will...

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...First off it seemed that her husband
had no been an abusive man,
just a nebbish actually,
it was clear she had worn the pants.

She’d married him for...

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I was in the shotgun seat
in 1960 Lansing Michigan
headed straight as a harddrive
through ghettoizing "Negra Section"
hunting down our commercial whitebread 
heavenly ThriftyAcres

Wanna be a WalMart...

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He wears, with me, the charms of love, 
exchanging gentle whispers in storms 
of fascinated, trembling union.

He shares with me blue velvet nights
of careful and...

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