Young And In Love Poems - Poems about Young And In Love

At the gate of adolescence boy meets girl; a real jewel but she clearly ranks second. He spends time grooming another favorite and buys expensive gifts for her, like custom wheels. In times away from her, he’ll mutter with worry of how she might could suffer harm without him. Might she disappear like a shadow from his sight? ...

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Emma’s Smile He picked her up the other day And from the window, peeking out of the blinds, I watched them traipse down the driveway Practically skipping, arms around each other, Happiness bubbling from their feet, Somersault energy fuses them. At the bottom of the driveway On their way late for something They stopped for a few breath-beats And hugged anyway. Emma laid her head on...

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They see an older woman seated awkwardly at the grave, brushing debris from the sun-warmed stone, clumsily shifting her weight in the heat - alone. They don't see her memories from thrifty-five lost years ago, of two teens at the annual fair. "In the misty corridors of the soul", he's there. She has carried him with her for decades, tucked away safely, but...

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I let it slip away… Gentling whispers, like the breathless Kisses falling over my trembling Lips when I was young, first love – first Dreams of everything that becomes Possible when the soundless urge Abandoned child, living just at the edge Where innocence plays in harmony With the truth, adolescent wonders hastening Beyond the reflection in the mirror, Starry eyed memories, drifting in dewlike Strokes embracing...

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Album by Michael R. Burch I caress them—trapped in brittle cellophane— and I see how young they were, and how unwise; and I remember their first flight—an old prop plane, their blissful arc through alien blue skies ... And I touch them here through leaves which—tattered, frayed— are also wings, but wings that never flew: like insects’ wings—pinned, held. Here, time delayed, their features...

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Step Into Starlight by Michael R. Burch Step into starlight, lovely and wild, lonely and longing, a woman, a child . . . Throw back drawn curtains, enter the night, dream of his kiss as a comet ignites . . . Then fall to your knees in a wind-fumbled cloud and shudder to hear oak hocks groaning aloud. Flee down the dark path to where...

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Violets by Michael R. Burch Once, only once, when the wind flicked your skirt to an indiscreet height and you laughed, abruptly demure, outblushing shocked violets: suddenly, I knew: everything had changed. Later, as you braided your hair into long bluish plaits the shadows empurpled, the dragonflies’ last darting feints dissolving mid-air, we watched the sun’s long glide into evening, knowing and unknowing. O, how the illusions...

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Oh, was it in this dark-Decembered world we walked among the moonbeam-shadowed fields and did not know ourselves for weight of snow upon our laden parkas? White as sheets, as spectral-white as ghosts, with clawlike hands thrust deep into our pockets, holding what we thought were tickets home: what did we know of anything that night? Were we deceived by moonlight making shadows...

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There were skies onyx at night... moons by day... lakes pale as her eyes... breathless winds undressing tall elms; ... she would say that we loved, but some book said we'd sinned. Soon impatiens too fiery to stay sagged; the crocus bells drooped, golden-limned; things of brightness, rinsed out, ran to gray... all the light of that world softly dimmed. ...

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Smoke by Michael R. Burch The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well; farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell rang bells within (the din was in) my mind, and I can't say if what we had was good or bad, or where it is today ... The endless days of summer's haze I still...

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Lovers Young Couples in Love-- Close-up warn taking off Running from my tainted cross The clothes I wear I discard in despair Alone in Throne lost Lovers young couples in love Swollen feet implanted arrest Fatuated brooks of disgust Fleshy heart in love not in lust Clothes chosen lovers clothes on not off Lovers young couples in love I place my hand gently at the nap...

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She dreams of him, she wakes to reach for him, Yearning for the touch of his hands, Tears well up in her eyes, Her lips tremble, As she remembers, He has been gone many years, He left her and went on ahead, But it seems like only yesterday, When they were young and in love, And she was his bride. He dreams of her, he...

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Waters of rapture Engulfed in a fiery love To bathe in your sun...

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Really wish it was easy as I thought, And no matter how I fought… I stood back and watched fall apart. Family life was too much to bear. Especially when he wasn’t there, I was consumed by hurt and despair. We left all that together; To find a place that was better… And the only thing I left was a little blue letter. With...

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