War Romance Poems

Waves of knives piercing through the barriers, 
their judgement infecting the defenses built up over time... 
claiming that's what they see, unknowing the backlash it...

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That kiss 
tasted like warm sunlight
toasting the tongue 
with honeyed sun 
and promises 

on a blue sky day

That kiss 
reached far into one
seeking to open...

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In the moonlit tapestry, where the scars unfold,
Silent tales etched in the surface's ground,
Each mark is a chapter, a story untold,
In the silk of time,...

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In love and war, they say all is fair,
But once, when I took the marriage dare
Feelings, dark as night,
Burdened me, an angry fight.
While I rested...

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Just give peace a chance

   applies foremost to romance

     ~ not to a war dance...

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(1.)

The Truth Of Dearest Love Sworn, I Ask God How

Over the grit-stained shoulders of ancient marble
Rests a million vagaries of humanity's million sins
Just as earth's...

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I am taking a trip to an antique store,                ...

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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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I started out life as Anna Mae Bullock,                 ...

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Once you owned my soul
Desire clouded me.
Your touch was burning ,fire
My body wanting , free
I don't know when that changed
Where it all went wrong
But now...

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A tribute to young daffodils 
   may grace the poet's page:
new grass, full streams, or nesting larks,
   as Spring takes center...

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Its precarious, what we have
On scales, I perform a balancing act
Desperate to trust blindly,
Wishing I could be so brave as to throw my heart on...

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"Missed" 

if you wanted me
to write about
rainbows and unicorns,
I would have to say
romance was never
on the menu of 
the grinning soul,
in the days
when war came.

lines...

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"love pyres" 

after the war
romance became 
compulsory 

not desultory

twin flames
lit each other 
up

love pyres

ashes 
falling 
Psyche rising

immaculate
immolate
in the aftermath

falling,
 
silence 
sings
lit within

kissed by Eros

(LadyLabyrinth /...

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Queen Elizabeth the Second passed
leaving the World in a mournful state.
How can this be--one who's so steadfast.
She tempered Britain's every fate.

Barely a bride on her...

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