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Home Posts tagged "love" (Page 3)

Tag: love

If I Should Die
. Contemplative / Fixed Form / Life / Metrical / Rhyme

If I Should Die

If I should die, then shed no tears for me, No ragged gasps, no passioned bouts of rage; Upon some windswept field I shall not be, No stone-faced mourners weeping …

 contentment / death / love / peace / sonnet / Tom Ling
Continue reading ... "If I Should Die"
Cinder Girl
. Pensive / Loss / Metrical / Rhyme

Cinder Girl

An ember sparked will softly glow, and fed by fuel, will grow and grow. I once was cinder, sparked by you, first timid. . . till the flames then grew. …

 Andrea Dietrich / love / passion / rejection
Continue reading ... "Cinder Girl"
My perfume is sweeter
. Romantic / Free Verse / Sentiment

My perfume is sweeter

My perfume is sweeter than Vegas, than streets littered with naked cardboard women, than flashing lights and men impersonating Elvis. My perfume fills up this empty bed with the way …

 longing / love / Michelle Awad / wanderlust
Continue reading ... "My perfume is sweeter"
Rejoice the Thorns
. Philosophical / Metrical / Sentiment

Rejoice the Thorns

If it is borne upon a rose, a thorn I shall not mind. The cost is very slight. If I should pick a lovely rose that pricks my thumb, then …

 Lawrence Eberhart / love / pain / rose / thorns
Continue reading ... "Rejoice the Thorns"
The Thunderstorm
. Romantic / Metrical / Nature

The Thunderstorm

Outside, the night is filled with mighty thunder; within, there dwells sweet harmony’s domain. And though bright lightning rips the sky asunder my heart explodes with gratitude again, for we …

 gratitude / home / lightning / love / Mark Vincent / shelter / thunder
Continue reading ... "The Thunderstorm"

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