Passion Separation Poems

Sometimes
When we have a loving relationship
Life gets in the way
The pressures of work money worries
Piles of unpaid bills
Not enough time for each other
The relationship erodes...

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why nights without you
burn me like scorching coal fire
my beloved? love indeed

would you come back soon
to hold me passionately
that fast my aches end? Indeed



16 July...

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Transfixed he mesmerized her with his Vampiric gaze. 
Enthralled and spellbound she groveled forthright from her slough. 
Only to find it was no man this...

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unjoined lips parted, breathing with a sigh 
flowers stand for hours to undo
proving only the softest of petals 
to brush a young cheek blushing
all vision...

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ON DESTINED SEPARATION

          Our lingering urge melted into our mutual crave
     ...

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Cut from the same cloth, certainly didn't apply
I'd lived twenty places, was born to improvise
You had one home, parents, sister, two nephews 
Persistance forced my...

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Ben Sana Mecburum: “You are indispensable”
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch

You are indispensable; how can you not know
that you’re like nails...

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This Distance Between Us
by Michael R. Burch

This distance between us,
this vast gulf of remembrance
void of understanding,
sets us apart.

You are so far,
lost child,
weeping for consolation,
so dear...

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Second Sight
by Michael R. Burch 

I never touched you—
that was my mistake.
 
Deep within,
I still feel the ache.
 
Can an unformed thing
eternally break?

***
 
Now, from...

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Each Color a Scar
by Michael R. Burch 
 
What she left here,
upon my cheek,
is a tear.
 
She did not speak,
but her intention
was clear,
 
and I...

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Though you possessed the moon and stars,
you are bound to fate and wed to chance.
Your lips deny they crave a kiss;
your feet deny they ache...

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Sweet Rose of Virtue 
by William Dunbar [1460-1525]
translation by Michael R. Burch

Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,
richest in bounty and...

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Separation only looks so sweet,
And tantalizing, when I slice your meat.
Romanticizing crimson glistening,
You plead to god, but is he listening? 
Crazed focus guides me down...

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Two pressed together
Like small wood chips drowned in glue
No separation

Russell Sivey...

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Just knowing we must part
creates a huge knot in my stomach.
Even though I know
I'll see you in a multitude of hours.
Without you, my time passes...

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