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Loveless Are the Romantics

If I took my heart out of its cage
you would think: "ah offal, just meat,
fresh blood if I eat it quickly."
.
Crazily, you call 'need' love,
you're crazed, heartless,
a cannibal, a crippled dog
baying at a savage moon.

Limp tongues turn to syrup eventually.
Clearly these bodies are ravaged temples,
apes howl about its holy alter.

And yet, cherries are flesh,
their sweetness

Categories: romantics, poetry,
Form: Free verse

A House of Romantics

Our cat is a Romantic, and a creature of habit.
she demands to be fed at the first
rosy light of dawn.

I awake each morning &, being
a benevolent god, feed her breakfast as the sun
bathes her white coat in coral sunlight.

The kettle boils with fresh water for hot green tea.
I sit outside each morning, a creature of

Categories: romantics, love,
Form: Free verse

Those Who Are Romantics and Those Who Just Exist

Why is it that society must outcast?
The man who stays up, alone, at 2 in the morning, is no less a man than the 
    one who sleeps with his lover, soundly. 
The dark, early mornings are made for the broken and the romantics. 
The poet, who writes of a life never

Categories: romantics, addiction,
Form: Free verse

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Church Romantics Watch Closely

There is Christmas mistletoe he thought, not daring to look her way.
His object of affection gave a shy glance that quietly darted away. 
The romantics in the congregation held their breath as they watched.
Not this year I guess said grandpa, scratching an itch in his crotch.

Categories: romantics, christmas,
Form: Rhyme

The Dilettante Diaries: the True Romantics

"My heart is like a singing bird". Christina Rossetti









The Dilettante Diaries: "The True Romantics"



Once cages are open
the True Romantics
dance their dance
of Freedom


Hidden Keys


Swallows
air beneath 
their wings



(Lovejoy-Burton/September 2018)








"I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else." John Keats
"I love you more than my own

Categories: romantics, adventure, freedom, fun, journey,
Form: Romanticism

The Mechanics of Romantics

All things have purpose and meaning within,
deciphered, at cost, by those of keen mind.
Surely, this dream they call love is akin,
with mechanics and rules of its own kind.

Evidence traces back thousands of years,
and billions today try their best to make sense,
of all the hopes and the joys and the fears,
that have made, do make, and

Categories: romantics, heart, romance, science, truth,
Form: Sonnet

Modern Romantics

Modern Romantics,

The pattering keys of time
Unfulfilled phantoms of the mind,
Unlit sparks, your desires from life,
The wide spaces between lives.

The short pattering spasms
An onlooker of natural beauty
A wide eyed smile of gleeful times
To quantum logic of unplanned interjects,

Targets of stagnant ears
Powers of instinctive judgement
Placid thoughts and marked sprees
Those alive shall see the beauty
of the Modern Romantic

Categories: romantics, appreciation, beauty, life, longing,
Form: Free verse

The Last of the Romantics

She was the only love he'd ever known

   For the cheap wedding ring he would atone

      She pined for a bigger "ice"

         A five carat stone would be nice

Categories: romantics, funny, romance,
Form: Limerick

The Last of the Romantics

With my dear spouse I'm very much in love.
'Tis truly a union sealed in heaven above!
O'er the years we've traveled a lot and seen many things.
We've watched our family grow and the joy that it brings!

For her wedding ring, this poor boy bought the best he could afford.
Alas, the stone was so minute, when she

Categories: romantics, funnyfamily, family,
Form: Rhyme