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Category: . Romantic
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A hundred hearts

A hundred hearts

If I had a hundred hearts, I’d give them all to you, And if I had a hundred more, They’d …

 #Jim Loft #Valentine
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. Nostalgic / . Romantic / Metrical / Rhyme
Ivory Keys and Silent Pleas

Ivory Keys and Silent Pleas

The old musician plays a soulful tune; his fingers floating over ivory keys while thoughts of her, like leaves, are …

 #aging #loss #Mark Vincent #Regret #villanelle
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. Pensive / . Romantic / Metrical / Rhyme
A song of departure

A song of departure

When the touch of warm flesh has returned to your lips, And they yield as they once did on mine, …

 #break-up #relationship #Thain Emrys Bertin
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. Happy / . Nostalgic / . Romantic / Fixed Form
Island Summer

Island Summer

Forgetful of shouldn’t and don’t we lost ourselves in the shimmer of summer casting off restrictions with our clothes. As …

 #grass #Lily Colbin #mockingbird #summer #young love
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. Romantic / Legend / Metrical / Rhyme
leyenda de los volcanes

leyenda de los volcanes

sleeping woman, smoking man watch over Tenochtitlan once young lovers, warring clans left their families, spurned their lands princess, warrior …

 #Iztaccihuatl #Leo Durrant #love story #Popocateptl #volcanoes
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. Romantic / .Expectant / Free Verse
Run-On Sentence

Run-On Sentence

The black bowl of heaven looming over us was freckled with ten thousand stars, which, despite the marvelof their brilliancecrossing the universefor …

 #freckles #kiss #smitten #Thomas Horton
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. Romantic / Free Verse / Life
she even looked a bit like you

she even looked a bit like you

outside the port-a-johnleaning on the livestock penstrapped between twin stenchesI hold your purse like a used tissue “don’t go anywhere!”so I …

 #Leo Durrant #metaphor
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. Romantic / Free Verse / Life
canvas on a warping frame

canvas on a warping frame

I didn’t know oil could crack. But new fissures open in sunflowers, gladiolas, the black and grey of the background. …

 #aging #character #growth #love #Rebecca Kerr
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