one kiss
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* This was the first poem I ever entered into a contest, and it won! (Thank you to poet/judge John Hamilton). It is about a very brief moment, and all that our minds can process in an instant, espe...
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Categories:
sensuously, analogy, kiss,
Form: Free verse
Mz Mortenson
...I’m Mz Mortenson, if you please.
I dispensed with the charade
when I went to my grave.
Life can be tricky
if you’re pretty.
My life was a role,
I couldn’t always control.
How unaware the...
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Categories:
sensuously, addiction, beauty, celebrity, death,
Form: Rhyme
Rhythms of Her Love and Beauty
...When her love,
and dress,
Is in slow motion,
Your love races,
To kiss the moon,
With a hymn,
So it may kiss,
And caress,
Her soul,
When her Beauty,
Is a beam of light,
And glides like w...
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Categories:
sensuously, beauty, moon, woman,
Form: Free verse
Womans Desire
...Woman’s Desire
What’s all this rigmarole and claptrap
About the man being the only one thinking of sex?
Well, truth be known,
A woman, skin deeply eager, thinks much of it too…
Once leaving t...
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Categories:
sensuously, feelings, gender, love, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Red Moon Rising
...Red moon rising, a globe ruby, an opulent theme,
A scarlet smile, a sight tranquil, a heavenly dream,
Weaves fabric of passions deep, as desires gleam,
Notions-romantic, undulating joy on stellar ...
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Categories:
sensuously, mom, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Red Door
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"Red Door"
love opens not
like a red rose,
it caresses you
slowly,
entices you in
holds you
hard and fast,
like a scarlet poppy
opium sweet
inviting, promising...
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Categories:
sensuously, love, muse, valentines day,
Form: Romanticism
The Opponent
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"The Opponent"
Something familiar
breezes across
the smile
you balk
at the familiarity
for a very short while
the opponent
opens your windows
stealth like on ...
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Categories:
sensuously, muse, poetry, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Valentines Day
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Flowers, arrive. Your heart just cannot stop it’s thunderous beating.
Already, heady from the aromatic aroma, running for scissors, you
are in a love coma.
Hands trembling, you cut ...
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Categories:
sensuously, imagery, love, valentines day,
Form: Other
The Dark Side of Love
...She was the nadir of affection
like a scorned lover, hell-bent on revenge.
She was still like a fresh flower, a sight for sore eyes.
David was told she was once jilted
by the beau of the town,
n...
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Categories:
sensuously, addiction, dark, longing, love
Form: Free verse
Dances With My Muse
...Dear Muse,
sometimes
you are dull, senseless,
paralyzingly, protractedly mute.
You determinedly adhere to the dancehall wall,
no magic spell conjuring
when melodies swell;
instead, you see...
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Categories:
sensuously, muse, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
Unbridal Imagination
...To know the softness of your lips
to see the pleasure of me in your eyes
and know your craving grows inside
and feel,your skin beneath my touch
Awakened from a restful sleep, wrapped
in your bla...
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Categories:
sensuously, how i feel, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Vibrant Blissful Stillness
...Always with you, I love to walk,
Under the sun, above the hills,
On the shore, to share and talk,
As my heart like the waves, enthralls.
From there, I’ll take you to the garden unbound,
Like b...
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Categories:
sensuously, destiny, environment, hope, surreal,
Form: Pastoral
Playful
...Feasting on my splendor ravishing to your eyes
Greet me seductively, watch me bathe in sunrise,
Breathing me in, devouring scent of intimacy,
Caressing my breeze teasing you affectionately
Cuddli...
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Categories:
sensuously, love, rose, sensual,
Form: Personification
Phoenix Wings
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"Phoenix Wings"
Suede heart turns tin star
wears the shining part
on the outside stitched up
blue silk now
glistening
tears in time forgotten
justice in the ...
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Categories:
sensuously, imagery, muse, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
A Memory
...A Memory
By Sy Roth
It didn’t come in like an invading horde of Mongols astride their horses.
It came like a Siren whispering a sweet song, blowing soft winds in my ear.
The old woman sat o...
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Categories:
sensuously, memory,
Form: Free verse
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