Romantic Wisdom Poems

I love hearing stories,
stories from my grandparents.
They love to tell stories,
stories from many years ago.
Grandma tells about bread,
when black showed up they would cut if off.
Then...

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I saw a nest today --
first new for the year;
Colorful, feathered architects
a-flit and a flutter...
weaving, securing,
sharing a cheerful, chirping,
instinctive mating mutter -- 

though the calendar...

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As I take a book off the shelf,
many questions I ask myself.
What is life all about,
as I read I have many a doubt.
"Our differences are...

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Who can say where it comes from?
Only that it’s there, when least expected,
thought to be rare if not obsolete

One night, the air a swirl of...

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You hold my hand
aware of capacity
for bonding

hands can do that
fingers fond conduits
palms firm suctions
of secure presence

hands yielding
while they also solidify
the mystery of divine
grasp – adhesive...

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In bold letters, bold thoughts betray the beauty of a feeling we all call love, yet most of us never know the beautiful way it...

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I was in the hospital at only five, 
the medicine gave me a big hive. 
Sunday school taught us to be alive, 
my spirit soared...

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We seek knowledge 
on the outside -- 
the mind of science
the body of senses
spatial summations -- 

yet, truer beams lead always
home

rays of sunlight entering
permeating the...

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haunter of the woods, 
woods whispering wishes,
like a heartbeat, still as starlight,
reflecting all the music…

oaks and birch, pine and laurel,
soothing barks, 
ligneous laughter, a morning...

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I climb to the top of the Eiffel tower to catch the remnant of hope gliding through the skies in a bolt of lightning as...

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I don't seek a white knight
a life partner would be nice

someone to curl up with
and discuss the life situations that bring me strife

Sprinkle that partner...

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Deeper than the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench, 
Bottomless curls, furls, swirls, and whirlpools of thoughts and feelings;
Thoughts go deeper than the Challenger Deep that does...

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It seems
no matter the topic
Love's always 
periscopic

pushing its little pink
nose
into a heart

purring its way
onto the surface

like sunlight nudging
a tropical sea
on the morning rise

Be them truth
or...

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Poetry is a naturally simple speech
Poetry is a well-organized speech
It is the profound expression of the soul
The digital or verbal dialect of the heart
Poetry is...

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