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Category: . Romantic
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Beautiful Tonight

Beautiful Tonight

You made me feel so beautiful tonight. I wonder if the sea felt much like me  as silver stars caressed …

 #Michelle DeLoatch #sonnet
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. Nostalgic / . Pensive / . Romantic / Metrical
Memories of an Old Man in Exile

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 …

 #blank verse #loneliness #lost love #Sarah van der Pas
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. Romantic / Free Verse / Love
Ill-Fitting Finery

Ill-Fitting Finery

Seventeen seconds to seventeen years. The first expired as I mined for gold flecks sparkling in blue eyes, tick-tocking against …

 #commitment #enduring love #love-at-first-sight #marriage #Mike Porter #romance
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. Romantic / Love / Metrical / Nature / Rhyme
Sugar Maple

Sugar Maple

My lover is a sugar maple tree, her back erect and regal, erudite, her breast replete with summer’s greenery, her …

 #Leo Durrant #lover #maple #sonnet #tree
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. Romantic / Metrical / Rhyme
[ If I were a painter I’d paint you in colors ]

[ 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 …

 #art #humility #love #music #sculpture #Thain Emrys Bertin
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. Romantic / Metrical / Rhyme
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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