Beautiful Tonight
You made me feel so beautiful tonight. I wonder if the sea felt much like me as silver stars caressed …
Category: . Romantic
Memories of an Old Man in Exile
Who can bring me back the scent That was riding on the breeze By a fountain far away On an …
Ill-Fitting Finery
Seventeen seconds to seventeen years. The first expired as I mined for gold flecks sparkling in blue eyes, tick-tocking against …
Sugar Maple
My lover is a sugar maple tree, her back erect and regal, erudite, her breast replete with summer’s greenery, her …
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[ If I were a painter I’d paint you in colors ]
If I were a painter I’d paint you in colors Of emerald and olive and amaranth-red, Agleam in the beam …
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 …
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 …
A song of departure
When the touch of warm flesh has returned to your lips, And they yield as they once did on mine, …